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Inscribed l.l.: Above Indian Battles With The Crows, Signed l.l.: by American Horse Sioux.
From: American Indian Painters, Vol. 1, p. 12: American Horse was a famous Oglala warrior who fought with Sitting Bull in the Sioux wars, from 1866 until he was killed at Slim Buttes, South Dakota, in 1875. Nothing much is known about this elder American Horse. There was a son or nephew by the same name who became a well known Oglala chief. It is impossible to determine if this painting was done by the elder or the younger American Horse, as both of them are known to have painted documentary pictures. The archaic style seems to indicate that it was the work of the older warrior. (Collection of Oscar Brousse Jacobson) Text references: American Indian Painters, Vol. 1, pp. 6, 11, 12