Black Bear Jr.: Rinehart 1898 [1930]

Author: Frank Albert Rinehart Date: 1898 [1930] Medium: Photograph Condition: Excellent Inches: 11 x 14 [Image] Centimeters: 28.21 x 35.90 [Image] Product ID: 000602 Silver print, copyrighted 1898, printed from original negative in 1930.Frank Albert Rinehart was an American artist famous for his drawings, paintings, and photographs depicting Native American personalities and scenes. In 1898, on the occasion of the Indian Congress held in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Rinehart was commissioned to photograph the event and the Native American personalities who attended it. Together with his assistant Adolph Muhr (who would later be employed by the famous photographer Edward S. Curtis), they produced what is now considered "one of the best photographic documentations of Indian leaders at the turn of the century". Tom Southall, former photograph curator at the University of Kansas' Spencer Art Museum, said of the Rinehart collection:The dramat