DOI Heft:
No. 207 (May, 1914)
DOI Artikel:Wray, Henry Russell: Charles Craig: painter of Indians and western scenes
DOI Artikel:The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43455#0453
Charles Craig: Painter of Indians and Western Scenes
A SIOUX LOOKOUT
BY CHARLES CRAIG
BY CHARLES CRAIG
A WINTER SCENE
in the door of his studio and takes a trip into the
various reservations of Colorado, Utah and New
Mexico. There he lives the life of his Indian
friends and conforms with the manners and cus-
toms of each tribe he is visiting. In the fall he
returns to his Colorado home with a mass of
sketches and a few finished paintings. Mr.
Craig’s knowledge is so accurate that the student
of Indian costume may be sure that every detail is
correct. If a Sioux warrior is depicted on the war-
path, his streaks of paint are in the proper place
and of the proper colour. He takes no liberties
with facts, and one will never find mixture of dress
such as an Apache wearing a Ute war bonnet.
Each canvas is an historical record.
Mr. Craig has exhibited in Eastern galleries, but
of late years his pictures are bought from his studio
as soon as finished. Many of his canvases have
gone abroad. Count Orloff Davidorff, of St.
Petersburg, and the Duchess of Buckingham and
Chandos own several of his works. Mr. Schley
commissioned Craig to paint from life a unique
series of Indian portrait heads. Mr. Craig chose
one representative type from every tribe he was
familiar with and could reach. These dozen or
more paintings are today hung in Mr. Schley’s
Indian room at Far Hills, N. J., and some day they
will be most valuable from an ethnological stand-
point, as they are perfectly correct in detail.
Many of Craig’s works are in private galleries.
One collection is owned by Mr. Joseph G. Butler,
of Youngstown, Ohio, another by Frank G. Sayles,
of Pawtucket, R. I.
There are other artists who from a technical
standpoint paint as well as Craig, but it is fairly
safe to say that no one who ever selected the same
character of subject, knows it more intimately, or
presents it more faithfully than this veteran stu-
dent of to-day, who, for thirty-two years, has
“lived and moved and had his being” among the
people and scenes which so strongly appeal to his
mind and his brush.
The Eighteenth Annual International Exhibi-
tion of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, Pitts-
burgh, opened Thursday, April 30,
immediately following the Founder’s
Day Exercises. The Press View Re-
ception was held on April 29.
The paintings shown this year,
numbering 344, represent America,
Austria, Belgium, England, France,
Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway,
Russia, Scotland, Spain and Sweden.
The annual international exhibi-
tions at Carnegie Institute are ea-
gerly anticipated by lovers of art in
every part of America; for the annual
exhibition held in Pittsburgh is the
only one of its kind in the United
States. The best exponents of con-
temporary art from Europe and the
United States are represented.
THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, PITTS¬
BURGH
xcvi
A SIOUX LOOKOUT
BY CHARLES CRAIG
BY CHARLES CRAIG
A WINTER SCENE
in the door of his studio and takes a trip into the
various reservations of Colorado, Utah and New
Mexico. There he lives the life of his Indian
friends and conforms with the manners and cus-
toms of each tribe he is visiting. In the fall he
returns to his Colorado home with a mass of
sketches and a few finished paintings. Mr.
Craig’s knowledge is so accurate that the student
of Indian costume may be sure that every detail is
correct. If a Sioux warrior is depicted on the war-
path, his streaks of paint are in the proper place
and of the proper colour. He takes no liberties
with facts, and one will never find mixture of dress
such as an Apache wearing a Ute war bonnet.
Each canvas is an historical record.
Mr. Craig has exhibited in Eastern galleries, but
of late years his pictures are bought from his studio
as soon as finished. Many of his canvases have
gone abroad. Count Orloff Davidorff, of St.
Petersburg, and the Duchess of Buckingham and
Chandos own several of his works. Mr. Schley
commissioned Craig to paint from life a unique
series of Indian portrait heads. Mr. Craig chose
one representative type from every tribe he was
familiar with and could reach. These dozen or
more paintings are today hung in Mr. Schley’s
Indian room at Far Hills, N. J., and some day they
will be most valuable from an ethnological stand-
point, as they are perfectly correct in detail.
Many of Craig’s works are in private galleries.
One collection is owned by Mr. Joseph G. Butler,
of Youngstown, Ohio, another by Frank G. Sayles,
of Pawtucket, R. I.
There are other artists who from a technical
standpoint paint as well as Craig, but it is fairly
safe to say that no one who ever selected the same
character of subject, knows it more intimately, or
presents it more faithfully than this veteran stu-
dent of to-day, who, for thirty-two years, has
“lived and moved and had his being” among the
people and scenes which so strongly appeal to his
mind and his brush.
The Eighteenth Annual International Exhibi-
tion of Paintings at the Carnegie Institute, Pitts-
burgh, opened Thursday, April 30,
immediately following the Founder’s
Day Exercises. The Press View Re-
ception was held on April 29.
The paintings shown this year,
numbering 344, represent America,
Austria, Belgium, England, France,
Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway,
Russia, Scotland, Spain and Sweden.
The annual international exhibi-
tions at Carnegie Institute are ea-
gerly anticipated by lovers of art in
every part of America; for the annual
exhibition held in Pittsburgh is the
only one of its kind in the United
States. The best exponents of con-
temporary art from Europe and the
United States are represented.
THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, PITTS¬
BURGH
xcvi