John Mix Stanley, Group of Piegan Indians, 1867. Oil on canvas; 27 x 41 in.
Lent by the Denver Public Library, Western History Department, 34.2008

frame height: 37 7/8 in, 96.2025 cm; frame width: 47 5/8 in, 120.9675 cm; height: 27 in, 68.5800 cm; width: 41 in, 104.1400 cm; height: 27 in, 68.5800 cm; width: 41 in, 104.1400 cm

signature in lower left corner, "J.M. Stanley" with date, "1867"; verso: museum tags: upper left corner "Denver Art Museum TL-9840 1989" ... , upper center edge "Denver Art Museum TL-9839 1989" ... , upper right edge "Denver Public Library" ... "The Trust for Museum Exhibition" ... with tombstone information, upper right edge orance stamp "Denver Public Library #25", right upper edge tape "DPL 62", left lower corner "Denver Public Library", stamping right edge reading "Husar-Chicago", right edge pen/ink reading "1728" "Build up Add 1"" and "M293 88621 Sept 2"

Petrie Institute of Western American Art

Petrie Institute of Western American Art

This object is currently on view

Artist [1814–1872]; Passed to his son, Louis Crandall Stanley [1855–1936]; Passed to his wife, Jane Caroline (nee Mahon) Stanley [1863–1940]; Passed to their daughter, Sarah L'Estragne Stanley [1892–1967], Michigan, 1939; (Louise Stegner), Omaha, NE; Purchased by Fred Rosenstock (Rosenstock Arts), Denver, CO; Purchased by the Denver Public Library, 1939

• Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1944
• "Building the West"—Denver Art Museum, ?–11/27/1955
• "The Western Frontier"—Denver Art Museum, 7/28–10/9/1966
• "Colorado Collects Historic Western Art"—Denver Art Museum, 1/13–4/15/1973
• "The Western Spirit: Exploring New Territory in American Art"—Denver Art Museum, 2/26–4/30/1989
• “The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality”—Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, 10/8–12/31/2000
• Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, 10/3/2015–1/3/2016
• Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, 2/1–4/29/2016
• "BackStory: Western American Art in Context"—History Colorado, 3/18/2017–2/11/2018