Our artist, while painting his grand picture, Sunset on the prairies is surprised by some Camanches [sic], who find his paint very convenient--our artist makes tracks for the setting sun – Historic Print
![Our artist, while painting his grand picture, Sunset on the prairies is surprised by some Camanches [sic], who find his paint very convenient--our artist makes tracks for the setting sun — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/115f7e98e1c0-L.webp)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Our artist, while painting his grand picture, Sunset on the prairies is surprised by some Camanches [sic], who find his paint very convenient--our artist makes tracks for the setting sun in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Our artist, while painting his grand picture, Sunset on the prairies is surprised by some Camanches [sic], who find his paint very convenient--our artist makes tracks for the setting sun
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A painter working at his easel on the open prairie is caught off guard when a group of Comanches rides up, more interested in his paint than his canvas, so he hurries off toward the setting sun. The color lithograph ran as the frontispiece of *Puck* on July 13, 1881, the New York satirical weekly published by Keppler & Schwarzmann. It mocks artists who traveled West in search of grand scenery, and it also shows how comic illustrations of the period leaned on Native people as stock figures.
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
|---|---|
| Notes | New York : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1881. |
| Subjects | Frontispiece illus. in: Puck, 1881 July 13, v. 9, p. 317. |
| Original scan | 3,314 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182000 |
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