The Trapper's Cabin
1858 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
About this artwork
An oil painting on canvas depicting a group of trappers inside a rustic interior with their hunting haul, signed and dated 1858 in the lower left. The work is part of the collection at the National Gallery of Art.
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John Mix Stanley was renowned for his extensive travels across the American West, where he documented the lives of Indigenous peoples and pioneers with great ethnographic detail. This painting captures the quintessential lifestyle of 19th-century trappers, emphasizing the rugged survivalism and material culture of the American frontier. Interestingly, Stanley lost a vast collection of his paintings in the 1865 Smithsonian Institution fire, making his surviving works, like this one, invaluable records of mid-19th-century American life.
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The Trapper's Cabin
John Mix Stanley, 1858
