D. B. Robinson (active 1875-1876)
Sapo-Omock-Sokah

Canada also witnessed an artistic interest in Indian portraiture. Robinson, a young English amateur artist about whom little is known, traveled to Toronto, where he became friends with Colonel James Macleod, head of the Northwest Mounted Police. Robinson then journeyed to the Far West to visit Macleod, hunt, and paint Indian portraits, such as this sensitive portrayal of Chief Crowfoot, a Blackfoot.

ca. 1875-76, watercolor
Glenbow Museum, Purchased with funds from the Glenbow Museum Acquisitions Society and with a repatriation grant from the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, Department of Communications, Government of Canada, 1991, acc. 991.20.1

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