Jim and His Daughter

Arts of the Americas

1923

Walter Ufer
American, 1876–1936

“The man who makes himself the [Jean-François] Millet of the Indian, who paints him just as he is, as he works, as he lives, will strike the lasting note.” Chicago’s mayor, Carter H. Harrison, Jr., gave this advice to Walter Ufer during the artist’s first summer in New Mexico in 1914, suggesting that he should not, for example, rehash romantic interpretations of Native American life. The artist took Harrison’s advice and depicted the lives and work of contemporary Native Americans, including Ufer’s favorite sitter and close friend, Jim, shown here in profile with his daughter.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Walter Ufer
Title: Jim and His Daughter
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1923
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 77.5 × 64.1 cm (30 1/2 × 25 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Howard Ellis
Reference Number: 1961.1111

Art Institute of Chicago, Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968 (no cat.).

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