In ink on verso below newspaper clipping: 1891., In pencil on verso: Archibald Campbell Niven. / Taken Dec. 1887. / Born Apr. 28 1871 Dec 1887 / April 28, 1871., Newspaper clippin affixed to verso at bottom., and Photographer's imprint on recto and verso.
Subject (Name):
Niven, Archibald C. (Archibald Campbell), 1803-1882
Photographs of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Photographs created by Owen Luck of individuals and events surrounding the armed occupation by Oglala Dakota Indians, American Indian Movement, and their allies of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota, 1973. Images document ceremonies and gatherings, men holding rifles and manning roadblocks, the arrival of negotiators from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and the federal government, and government military forces. Other images shows a group in the doorway of the courthouse during the arraignment of prisoners and Tom Bad Cobb in the street outside the jail, both in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Description:
Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001. and Signed by the photographer on verso, often with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Pictorial works and Wounded Knee (S.D.)--History--Indian occupation, 1973
Subject (Name):
American Indian Movement
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Pictorial works and Oglala Indians--Government relations
Collection of six letters from Asger Jorn to Edouard Jaguer and nine black-and-white photographs. Letters discuss the avant-garde art movements COBRA and the Internationale des Artistes Expérimentaux, artists affiliated with these groups, including Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, and Christian Dotremont, and other topics. Two letters accompanied by manuscripts on the "Programme de l'organisation IAE" and "Au sujet des qualités artiste...". Six photographs record a 1953 visit by Jaguer to Jorn's studio in Silkeborg, Denmark. In addition, there is a photograph by Lars Bay of a ceramic plate made by Jorn and Jaguer, "La sirène du nord," in the Silkeborg kunstmuseum.
Description:
Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Danish artist. and Purchased from Jan Ceuleers on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Alechinsky, Pierre, 1927-, Bay, Lars, Cobra (Association), Corneille, 1922-2010, Dotremont, Christian, 1922-1979, Internationale des artistes expérimentaux, Jaguer, Edouard, 1924-2006, Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973, and Silkeborg kunstmuseum
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Arts, Modern--20th century, and Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe