Lot 14
Elsa Laubach Jemne(1888-1974)Chief Many-Tail-Feathers 34 x 30 1/4 in. framed 39 1/4 x 35 in.
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Elsa Laubach Jemne (1888-1974)
Chief Many-Tail-Feathers
unsigned
oil on canvas
34 x 30 1/4 in.
framed 39 1/4 x 35 in.
Painted circa 1925-1926.
unsigned
oil on canvas
34 x 30 1/4 in.
framed 39 1/4 x 35 in.
Painted circa 1925-1926.
Footnotes
Provenance
Adolph Ernst (1884-1963), Aitkin, Minnesota.
Private collection, California, acquired from the above, by family descent.
Private collection, Utah, acquired from the above, by family descent.
In the 1920s Adolph Ernst was a conductor for the northern most transcontinental railroad in the United States, Great Northern Railway. Calling at St. Paul, Minnesota and terminating in Seattle, Washington, the line served as a bridge between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean. Around the same time as Ernst's employment, the railroad commissioned artists such as Elsa Laubach Jemne to paint portraits of the Blackfoot Indians to inspire travel to and stewardship of Glacier National Park. Beyond the portraits Jemne completed of Little Plume, Mrs. Curly Bear, Lazy Boy, and Many Tail Feathers, who is pictured here, Native Americans also featured predominately in her Mural works which can be seen in Brandon and St. Cloud, Minnesota. Together with her work as a muralist and commissions for the railway Jemne's grandson Adam Granger has dubbed her a 'Pioneer Modernist.'