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Portrait of Captain Jack Hart
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| Accession #: | 3779.1 |
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| Title: | Portrait of Captain Jack Hart |
| Object Type: | Painting |
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| Physical Description: | Oil painting in dark brown hues with little contrast. Profile portrait of a man {Captain E. A. "Jack" Hart b. 1844, d. 1920} aged to 60 or 70 years. The man gazes to his right exposing his proper left cheek to the viewer. He looks toward a light source. He has gray hair, a mustache and goatee. He wears a western-style hat with a dark brown hat band secured with a metal buckle just behind his proper left ear. A dark brown coat or jacket covers a beige button-up shirt with red tie. |
| Description: | Around 1910, Edwin Hart, known as "Captain Jack" (1849-1920), had his portrait painted in oil on canvas wearing this felted hat with its tooled leather hatband. Hart was a trail guide, Pony Express Rider, scout with Buffalo Bill, and cowboy, who later relayed his "spirited accounts" in newspapers and magazines. His well-worn hat still carries three bullet holes; it "often doubled as a receptacle to water and to feed Hart's horse." This painting, hat and many other Hart artifacts came to the Inland Northwest in the late 1920s when his friends, the donors, moved to Spokane. In 2013, conservator Peter Malarkey removed this canvas from its frame, vacuumed its reverse, and installed missing stretcher keys. He removed surface grime and applied new varnish over intact discolored old varnish, before returning the canvas to its freshly-stabilized frame - now ready for viewing. |
| Category: | Art |
| Related Objects: |
2095.2 (E. A. "Jack" Hart, Hat, Campaign, Captain Jack Hart's Hat, 1880 - 1920)
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| Subjects/Topics/Concepts: |
Oil (Artwork->Painting), Portrait (Artwork->Subject)
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| Dimensions: |
Support Dimensions H x W 23 1/8 x 17 1/4"
Frame Dimensions H x W x D 27 3/4 x 21 3/4 x 2 1/2"
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| Materials/Techniques: |
oil paint (paint) (Material)
canvas (Material)
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| Credit Line: | Gift of Jeanne Johnson, 1996 |
| Copyright: |
public domain
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