
Art Institute of Chicago
The Death of the King of the Herd
Alexander Phimister Proctor · Modeled 1917, cast 1917
Provenance
Ownership history
- George F. Harding, Jr. (1868–1939), Chicago, by 1939 [Harding Collection no. 484]; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago, 1939 [the museum closed in 1964 and the collection was placed in storage in Chicago and New York]; transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 30, 1982 [incoming receipt, RX13663, July 30, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; accessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4842/small-bronzes-by-a-phimister-proctor"><em>Small Bronzes by A. Phimister Proctor</em></a>, Mar. 8–Apr. 2, 1917, cat. 33, as <em>The Chase</em> (plaster version exhibited).
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://archive.artic.edu/window/overview.html"><em>Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890–1940</em></a>, June 28–Oct. 13, 2003, cat. 70.
Literature
Published references
- "Exhibitions", <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, 11, no. 4 (Apr. 1917): 308 (ill), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4103892">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4103892</a>, as <em>The Chase</em> (plaster version published).
- <em>Small Bronzes by A. Phimister Proctor</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), n.p., cat. 33, as <em>The Chase</em> (plaster version published).
- 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, 2003), 90-91, fig. 11, cat. 70 (ill.).
- “Buffalo Hunt,” in <em>Alexander Phimister Proctor: Sculptor in Buckskin</em> (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West and The Ricketts Art Foundation), accessed Oct. 31, 2024, <a href="https://alexanderproctorsculptor.org/artworks/121/">https://alexanderproctorsculptor.org/artworks/121/</a>, as <em>Buffalo Hunt</em>.
- Peter H. Hassrick, “The Buffalo Hunt”, in <em>Alexander Phimister Proctor: Sculptor in Buckskin</em> (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Center of the West and The Ricketts Art Foundation), accessed Oct. 31, 2024, <a href="https://alexanderproctorsculptor.org/explore/the-buffalo-hunt/">https://alexanderproctorsculptor.org/explore/the-buffalo-hunt/</a>, as <em>Buffalo Hunt</em>.
- Sylvia Huber, "The Buffalo Hunt 2", <em>Buffalo Bill Center of the West</em>, June 12, 2017, <a href="https://centerofthewest.org/2017/06/12/buffalo-hunt-2/">https://centerofthewest.org/2017/06/12/buffalo-hunt-2/</a>, as <em>Buffalo Hunt</em>.
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