Cave on the Missouri

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Cave on the Missouri

Date

April 12, 1833

Dimensions

6 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (16.2 × 22.2 cm)

Medium

Graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.125

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

At half past ten on the morning of April 10, the travelers left St. Louis aboard the American Fur Company steamer Yellow Stone. The next day they arrived at St. Charles, Missouri, approximately twenty-five miles above the mouth of the Missouri River, where Pierre Chouteau and several women passengers disembarked to return by coach to St. Louis. Kenneth McKenzie and Major John Dougherty, Indian agent from Bellevue, came aboard for the next leg of the voyage upriver. Above St. Charles on April 12 the steamer made its way past Bonhomme Isle. In his journal Maximilian noted the existence of interesting limestone banks and rock formations. This same day Bodmer made one of the first of his Missouri River studies featuring a cave in the riverbank near the island.

References in Journal

April 12, 1833

Labels:

genre, riverscape , Missouri River , Bonhomme Isle, Missouri

Approximate Depicted Location:

Bonhomme Isle, Missouri