Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Frederick Stiles Agate American

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The son of English immigrants, Agate was a student of Samuel F. B. Morse and a founding member of the National Academy of Design. In this drawing, one of only a few by the artist that survives, four Indians cluster together in attitudes of despair and resignation. Agate studied and worked in Italy in the mid-1830s, and the influence of classical sculpture is evident in the poses and draperies as well as the pyramidal composition. This drawing may have been a study for a painting. It shares a dramatic sensibility with Agate’s other works of the 1830s, including "Jesuit Missionaries among the Indians" and a scene from Dante’s Inferno titled "Count Ugolino" (both whereabouts unknown).

Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook), Frederick Stiles Agate (American, Sparta, New York 1803–1844 Sparta, New York), Pen and black ink, gray washes, and graphite on off-white wove paper, American

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Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook), Frederick Stiles Agate (American, Sparta, New York 1803–1844 Sparta, New York), Pen and black ink, gray washes, and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook), Frederick Stiles Agate (American, Sparta, New York 1803–1844 Sparta, New York), Pen and black ink, gray washes, and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook), Frederick Stiles Agate (American, Sparta, New York 1803–1844 Sparta, New York), Pen and black ink, gray washes, and graphite on off-white wove paper, American

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