The Arkansas Traveler

Artist: Published by Currier and Ives
Type: Lithograph
Year: c. 1870
Size/Dimensions: H: 11.125", W: 14"
Origin: Gift of Charles Curb
Accession Number: 2001.22.1

This lithograph from the original painting The Arkansas Traveler" by Arkansas artist, E.P. Washburn [1831-1860] was published by one of the world"s best known art print firms---Currier and Ives, in 1870. Below the print is text that recalls the famed conversation between the Traveler (thought to be Arkansan Sanford Faulkner) and the squatter.