2017 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 292
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Robert Griffing (b. 1940)
Delaware War Chief (2001)
oil on canvas
20 × 14 inches
signed and dated lower left
Describing this painting, Tim J. Todish wrote, “Proud and strong, this Delaware war chief poses with a trade blanket and smoothbore musket that reveals how these ancient ways have unalterably begun to depend on the manufacturing capabilities of the whites.”
LITERATURE
Tim J. Todish, The Narrative Art of Robert Griffing (Gibsonia, PA: Paramount Press, 2007), p 19, illustrated