DENNY KARCHNER NATIVE AMERICAN ART Horse Capture

"Horse Capture"- was born near Milk River , Montana , in 1858. His tribe, the Atsina, commonly designated Gros Ventres of the Prairie, are of the Algonquian stock and a branch of the Arapaho. Their name for themselves is Aaninen, Atsina being their Blackfoot name.

The overall size of this pencil is 12” x 18” on heavy weight, hot press Crescent illustration board. The photographic portrait reference was provided courtesy of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
Cody , Wyoming , portrait photograph reference was taken in 1909 by Edward S. Curtis.

The original was donated and accepted for permanent placement in the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville , Georgia in October, 2005.