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Alfred Jacob Miller: Ma-wo-ma   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller  (1810–1874)  wikidata:Q2090482
 
Alfred Jacob Miller
Description American painter
Date of birth/death 2 January 1810 Edit this at Wikidata 26 June 1874 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Baltimore Baltimore
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artist QS:P170,Q2090482
Title
Ma-wo-ma
Description
English: Ma-wo-ma, whose name was somewhat misleading because it translates "Little Chief," was leader of the approximately three thousand Snake Indians, many of whom came to the rendezvous. He was "decidedly in every sense superior to any Indian that we had met," Miller declared. "He was a man of high principle, in whom you could place confidence." Miller and Ma-wo-ma were both artists, neither terribly appreciative of the other's work: "I noticed that all four of the legs of the horses were on one side," Miller observed of one of Ma-wo-ma's paintings. "This arose from a want of knowledge of perspective. He also colored them with the stick end of a brush instead of the hair end,- not probably having seen before an article of this kind... A running commentaary was kept up while he proceeded with the drawing. There was a little more of the 'ego' than good taste might have dictated but it sat with exceeding grace on our excellent friend Ma-Wo-Ma. And the interpreter so far from softening no doubt exaggerated- as such gentry are wont to do." Ma-wo-ma criticized Miller's work for being too much like the "vulgar and familiar species of art" that he could see in his "looking glass."
Date between 1858 and 1860
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium watercolor and gouache on tan paper
Dimensions height: 31.1 cm (12.2 in); width: 24.1 cm (9.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,31.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,24.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1940.35
Place of creation USA
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Credit line Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1858-1860
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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