Collection Highlights
Medicine Man (Blackfoot): Plate 173
Date:
1866-68
Object Number:
1872.23.173
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on prepared card
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Louis De Valois Wilder, M.D.
Object Number:
1947.143
Date:
1882
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 29 1/8 in. ( 91.4 x 74 cm )
Description:
Three-quarter length portrait, seated with legs crossed, long white beard; painted when the artist was twelve years old.
Gallery Label:
The subject was the son of Jedediah and Prudence (Wells) Wilder of Wolcott, Wayne County, New York. He was a prominent New York physician who maintained a practice at 55 West 33rd Street.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
