The painting was part of Henri’s first solo exhibition and bought by Frank Southern, the artist’s brother, and kept in the family for the next 120 years.
[3] The Henri Museum building was originally a house that was built by John Jackson Cozad in 1873.
This shooting resulted from in a dispute over cattle that later escalated in a shouting match, a brawl and gun violence.
Although Cozad was acquitted in the killing, his wife and sons soon sold the house and left town forever.
He was described by the Omaha World-Herald as “a well-known hunting guide, outdoorsman and landscape painter — there was talk he would become the first-ever Nebraska state naturalist — before he pulled a gun on his best friend and changed his own life.” His fame thereafter was as a jailhouse artist of some talent.