All the oil paintings of John Mix Stanley

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
38343		Black Knife,an Apache Warrior	mk136 Oil on canvas 1846
79864		Buffalo hunt on the Southwestern plains	Buffalo hunt on the Southwestern plains cyf
69863		Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies	oil on canvas painting by John Mix Stanley, Smithsonian American Art Museum
83290		Detail from Oregon City on the Willamette River	Detail from Oregon City on the Willamette River, ca. 1850 - 1852, Oil on canvas, cjr
85795		Detail from Oregon City on the Willamette River	ca. 1850 - 1852, Oil on canvas cjr
89983		Detail from Oregon City on the Willamette River	1850-1852, Oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, acq. no. 1979.17, see http://www.cartermuseum.org/works-of-art/1979-17 Date c. 1850-1852 cyf
79100		Hawaiian Girl with Dog	oil on canvas painting by John Mix Stanley, 1849, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu Date 1849(1849) cyf
79790		Hawaiian Girl with Dog	oil on canvas painting by John Mix Stanley, 1849, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu Date 1849(1849) cyf
41504		Last of Their Race	mk162 1857 Oil on canvas 43x60
32022		On the Trail	mk77 1871 Oil on canvas 36x48in
97210		Oregon City on the Willamette River	c. 1850-1852 cyf
76751		Portrait of Mrs. Benjamin Pitman	Portrait of Mrs. Benjamin Pitman (High Chiefess Kinoole-o-Liliha), oil on canvas painting by John Mix Stanley, 1849, Peabody Essex Museum of Salem. cjr
81219		Portrait of Princess Manaiula Tehuiarii, granddaughter of King Pomare I of Tahiti, Wife of High Chief William Kealaloa Kahanui Sumner	Date ca. 1848(1848) Medium Oil on canvas cjr
69648		River in a Mountain Landscape	oil on canvas painting by John Mix Stanley

John Mix Stanley
A famous painter of Indians and Indian scen . American , 1814-1872 American , 1814-1872,was an American painter of landscapes, portraits and Native American life. He was born in Canandaigua, New York and orphaned at the age of 12. At age 14, Stanley became an apprentice to a coach maker. Looking for better work, he moved to west in 1832 and became a painter of signs and portraits. In spring 1843 Stanley accompanied the party of Indian agent Pierce M. Butler to the Tehuacana Creek Council. At the outbreak of the Mexican War in 1845, John Mix Stanley joined Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney's expedition to California and produced many sketches and paintings of the campaign. He traveled to Hawaii in 1848 and spent a year painting portraits of members of the royal family. He traveled across the Isthmus of Panama in 1853. He also painted Comanche warriors in their natural environment. He moved to Detroit in 1864 and remained there for the rest of his life. Stanley helped to found a forerunner of the Detroit Institute of Arts and to incorporate the National Gallery and School of Arts. Stanley's primary interests and sympathies were with the Indians. The Smithsonian exhibited his pictures, but Congress never appropriated monies for them. More than 200 of his works were destroyed in the Smithsonian fire of 1865.