<p>Painting of a lake shore with Native American figures in foreground, canoe on lake in distance, sun setting over water</p>
<p>In this small-scale oil on paper painting, the American landscape painter Bierstadt captured a scene from Henry Longfellow's epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha." The figure of Hiawatha in a canoe almost disappears into the reflection of the sunset on the lake. The artist presented this painting to the poet at a dinner in his honor at the Langham Hotel, London, July 9, 1868.</p>
<ul><li>Keywords: art; LONG 4138; Hiawatha; Longfellow; Native Americans; sunset; literature; poetry; Albert Bierstadt; landscape</li></ul>
Museum Collection (LONG 4138)
circa 1868 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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