Untitled (Indian sitting on roof top smoking pipe, wearing a cape and feather headdress - skeleton wearing a long flowing cape soaring overhead) – All Works – eMuseum

Karl Mattern

(American, 1892 - 1969)

Untitled (Indian sitting on roof top smoking pipe, wearing a cape and feather headdress - skeleton wearing a long flowing cape soaring overhead), date unknown

Lithograph on paper

Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Bequest of Mary Mattern, in memory of Karl Mattern, 1983.39

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Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines

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DimensionsSheet: 10 1/2 × 14 1/4 in. (26.7 × 36.2 cm)
Plate: 6 11/16 × 8 1/2 in. (17 × 21.6 cm)

Accession Number 1983.39

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SignedKarl Mattern (l/l in border in pencil)

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