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Wounded Knee #III

Arthur Amiotte Native American
2001
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
On December 29, 1890, at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the 7th Cavalry of the U.S. Army—General George Armstrong Custer’s reconstructed command—killed at least 150 Lakota men, women, and children. Arthur Amiotte’s great-grandfather Standing Bear (1859–1933) lost his wife and baby daughter in the massacre. Through historical photos, his family’s oral history, colored drawings, and newspaper clippings, the artist tells the tragic story that ended the dream for new life promised by the Ghost Dance.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Wounded Knee #III
  • Artist: Arthur Amiotte (Native American, Oglala Lakota (Teton Sioux), born South Dakota, 1942)
  • Date: 2001
  • Geography: United States, South Dakota
  • Culture: Oglala Lakota (Teton Sioux)
  • Medium: Ink and paper on canvas
  • Dimensions: 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm)
  • Classification: Collages
  • Credit Line: Lent by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago; Gift of Robert and Miranda Donnelley (2013.30)
  • Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing