Description Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed] EXHIBITION OF WESTERN PAINTINGS BY W. R. LEIGH On Tuesday, January 11, the Grand Central Art Galleries, 15 Vanderbilt Avenue, will open a large one-man show of recent works by William R. Leigh, who is the one living member of that trio of great American artists — the other two being of course Remington and Charles Russell — who have achieved fame as delineators of the...

Description Folder 499 Transcript (DCI) [at top right of page in pencil it is noted “This list compiled by Mrs. A. Connett, Sec’y to WRL.”CUMULUS CLOUDS1. Coming Shower — Arizona2. Rain Cloud — Arizona3. Desert Shower — Arizona4. Clouds Over The Rockies — Wyoming5. Polacca, Arizona — First Mesa6. El Capitain — Kayenta, Arizona7. Distant Showers — Ganado,...

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Black and white photograph of Indian woman, Ruth, climbing a mesa and carrying a load on her back. She is barefoot and looking at the camera. Photograph is part of the album TU2009.39.7650. A collection of pictures taken when Charles M. Russell and Nancy C. Russell join Howard Eaton on a six week trip to Arizona. They departed on September 9, 1916 to see the Grand Canyon and visit the Navajo and Hopi country.

Description Folder 437 Transcript (DCI) [single page document typed on lined note paper]ZUNI BAKING DAYThe Zuni maiden bakes excellent bread in her oven. We call it a Dutch oven, but the Zunis have had this type of oven [illegible - 2 words crossed out] as far back as the white man’s knowledge of them goes. Her costume is her adaptation from the whites. The peton hanging down her back is purely ornamental. The buckskin wrappings...