Settler’s Farm in Indiana

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Settler's Farm in Indiana

Date

November 1832

Dimensions

11 7/8 × 17 in. (30.2 × 43.2 cm)

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.68

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

During a visit to the prairie settlements west of New Harmony in January, 1833, Maximilian saw at one cabin a woman whose children, obviously neglected, were outside with the dogs gnawing on the bones of a wild turkey. "In the dark hut," he commented in his journal, "we could see through the door the bed where it was standing.... In front of the house, blocks of Catalpa wood were lying." Bodmer's sketch of such a homestead on the Indiana border, made during his trip into this same area in November, 1832, does not include such details.

References in Journal

January 4, 1833

Labels:

structure , landscape , New Harmony, Indiana

Approximate Depicted Location:

West of New Harmony, Indiana