Bibliograph

Artists of the Old West, by John C. Ewers

Type

Label

Artists of the Old West, by John C. Ewers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240)

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Artists of the Old West

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

511604

Responsibility statement

by John C. Ewers

Summary

Study of the top-ranking artists, American and European, who captured on canvas the authentic sights and scenes, and the true spirit of the American West

Table Of Contents

The artist as explorer and historian -- In the wake of Lewis and Clark : Charles Willson Peale and Chares B.J.F. de Saint-Mémin -- First artists in the Great American Desert : Titian Ramsay Peale and Samuel Seymour -- Portraying Plains Indians for posterity : Charles Bird King and John Neagle -- Young artist on the Red River of the North : Peter Rindisbacher -- Hunting indians with a paintbrush : George Catlin -- Master draftsman on the Upper Missouri : Karl Bodmer -- Among the mountain men : Alfred Jacob Miller -- Among the fur traders at the mouth of the Yellowstone : Rudolph Friederich Kurz -- In the California mines : Charles Nahl and Thomas A. Ayres -- Artist and trail blazer in the northern Rockies : Gustavus Sohon -- Scenes of Rocky Mountain grandeur : Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran -- Artists of the Plains Indiana Wars : Theodore R. Davis and Frederic Remington -- A Montona cowboy portrays the passing of the old west : Charles M. Russell

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