Snake Dance
Hermon Atkins MacNeil · Modeled 1896, cast c. 1897
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, by 1924; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, International Exposition, 1900, as Danse des serpents.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2838/window-on-the-west-chicago-and-the-art-of-the-new-frontier-1890-1940"><em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em></a>, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 56, as <em>The Moqui Runner (The Moqui Prayer for Rain—The Returning of the Snakes)</em>.
Literature
Published references
- Erwin Millard Breithaupt, Jr., “The Life and Works of Hermon Atkins MacNeil” (master’s thesis, Ohio State University, 1947), p. 51.
- Judith A. Barter, <em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago; New York and Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2003), 25–27, 29–30, 41, cat. 56, fig. 22 (ill.)
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