Louis McClellan Potter, (American, 1873 to 1912)
Louis McClellan Potter was born in New York. He studied in France, where he developed an interest in ethnography, traveling to North Africa. The Bey of Tunis chose Potter’s sculptures of Bedouin tribesmen to represent Tunisia at the Exposition Universelle de 1900 in Paris. In the United States he turned his talents to the portrayal of Native Americans. His sculpture received a posthumous exhibition at the New York Armory Show of 1913. His work is held by the Smithsonian Amercian Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Peabody Art Collection of the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis.
Information courtesy of James D. Julia Auctions, August 2004.