Hiawatha's Friends, (painting)
Object Details
- painter
- Remington, Frederic 1861-1909
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
- Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 397.
- Summary
- Painted to illustrate an 1890 edition of Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855), this scene accompanying canto 6 does not appear to depict a particular incident in the canto. The caption that appears in the book reads: "Pitched it sheer into the river.... / Where it still is seen in Summer." The painting shows three Native Americans in a canoe traveling down river with a large rock sticking up out of the water on the left. This scene seems to refer to one of Kwasind's feats of strength. After accusations of laziness, he threw a huge rock into the Pauwating River where it was visible above the waterline during the summer months.
- Culture
- Indian
- 1889
- Control number
- IAP 36121069
- Type
- Paintings
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Owner/Location
- Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 62.241.3
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Topic
- Literature--Longfellow--Song of Hiawatha
- Figure group
- Ethnic
- Architecture--Boat--Canoe
- Landscape--River
- Record ID
- siris_ari_42829
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
