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SIGNED INK DRAWING OF CHIEF WHITE GRASS. REISS, WINOLD. Original ink drawing of Chief White Grass, appearing on the endpaper of Reiss's Blackfeet Indians (Great Northern Railway, 1935), signed and dated lower right ('Winold Reiss / June 1937'). WITH: Typed letter of presentation signed ('Winold Reiss') to Charles Collinson, 1 p, New York City, June 17, 1937, mounted to paste-down endpaper. WITH: Blackfeet Indians: Pictures by Winold Reiss, Story by Frank B. Linderman. St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railway, 1935. 4to. Publisher's decorated orange cloth, some wear. A FINE RENDERING OF REISS'S PORTRAIT OF CHIEF WHITE GRASS. White Grass was a renowned medicine man among the Blackfeet, also called 'Shorty' and 'Judge Shorty.' See Stewart, Winold Reiss: An Illustrated Checklist of His Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., 1990, p 96. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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SIGNED INK DRAWING OF CHIEF WHITE GRASS. REISS, WINOLD. Original ink drawing of Chief White Grass, appearing on the endpaper of Reiss's Blackfeet Indians (Great Northern Railway, 1935), signed and dated lower right ('Winold Reiss / June 1937'). WITH: Typed letter of presentation signed ('Winold Reiss') to Charles Collinson, 1 p, New York City, June 17, 1937, mounted to paste-down endpaper. WITH: Blackfeet Indians: Pictures by Winold Reiss, Story by Frank B. Linderman. St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railway, 1935. 4to. Publisher's decorated orange cloth, some wear. A FINE RENDERING OF REISS'S PORTRAIT OF CHIEF WHITE GRASS. White Grass was a renowned medicine man among the Blackfeet, also called 'Shorty' and 'Judge Shorty.' See Stewart, Winold Reiss: An Illustrated Checklist of His Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., 1990, p 96. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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