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**Originally Listed At $250**

Dorothy Carnine Scott (American, 1903-1993). "Geronimo, Apache Chief, 1898" limited edition lithograph, edition 19 of 30, n.d. Hand-signed, titled, and numbered in pencil below the image. A fascinating portrait of Geronimo - a respected leader, medicine man, and shaman of the Apache people - by Dorothy Carnine Scott. Scott has depicted the Apache Chief donning traditional garb as well as a feathered headdress, and holding an intimidating gun. In addition to this riveting subject, the lithograph demonstrates Scott's exceptional skill at deriving both texture and form from the lithographic stone. Size of image: 15" L x 12.25" W (38.1 cm x 31.1 cm) Size of paper: 19.5" L x 16.125" W (49.5 cm x 41 cm)

Dorothy Carnine Scott earned her A.B. magna cum laude from Colorado College in 1925; her M.A. at the University of Chicago in 1935; and a B.S. in Library Science, summa cum laude, in 1948. She studied art at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Syracuse University, University of Southern California, and Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles - with illustrious mentors such as Boardman Robinson, Ward Lockwood, Henry Snell, Eliot Clark, Henry Varnum Poore, Montague Charman, Emile Gelee, Robert Wendell, Joseph Zirker, and Michael Gress.

Dorothy Carnine Scott's art is represented in the following permanent collections: Sweet Briar College; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; John Wyatt, Jr. School, Lynchburg, Virginia; Tunghai University, Taiwan, China; Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, Kansas; Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine; Mayville College, North Dakota; Colorado Northwest Community College, Rangley; and many private collections. Honors include prizes in AAPL National Exhibit and Salmagundi Club Open Show, both in 1980; Academic Artists Association in 1975 and 1977.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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  • Condition: Hand-signed, titled, and numbered in pencil below the image. Minor age wear with some creases to periphery and a few stray marks in the margins, neither of which impact the image.

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