Elbridge Ayer Burbank

After attending public schools, he started art studies at the Chicago Academy of Design, where he was influenced by Leonard Volk and graduated in 1874.

He collected books, original manuscripts and other materials relating to the history and ethnology of Native American peoples at the time of European encounter.

Over a period of several years, he spent many months at the Hubbell Trading Post, where he studied and painted Native Americans.

First in this notable galaxy was a picture and story of Red Cloud, the famous Ogallalla (sic) Sioux, recently deceased.

Olivet Memorial Park, San Francisco, California, but his remains were reinterred at Forest View Abby in Rockford, Illinois.

Burbank painted sitting portraits of the greatest Native American leaders, including Geronimo, Red Cloud and Chief Joseph.

He would sit down and smoke a little, short, strong pipe and gossip with the other Indians present; all the time he was talking he would be fanning himself with the wing of a turkey.