Between May 1804 and September 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark and their Corps of Discovery explored a new expanse of
America known as the Louisiana Purchase. They encountered lands,
rivers, and peoples previously unknown Americans east of the
Mississippi. During the next sixty-five years, Lewis and Clark's
journey was followed by other explorations of the West, from the
Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean and from Canada to
Mexico.Artists often accompanied explorers as they encountered the
unexpected and unique subjects of the American West. Inspired by
the thrill of adventure and the majesty of high mountains, great
chasms, and wide-open spaces, artists became eyewitnesses and
visual commentators of the changing shape of the frontier - and the
tragic displacement of American Indian tribes. As these artists
sought to capture on paper and canvas what they saw during their
explorations and travels, they gave birth to American western art.
After Lewis and Clark highlights more than sixty paintings,
drawings, and prints in the collection of one of America's finest
museums of American art, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This richly illustrated book presents and places in aesthetic and
historical context many of the priceless portraits, striking
scenes, and grand landscapes inspired during the sixty-five years
after the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey. It
features the works of notable artists of the nineteenth-century
American West, including George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob
Miller, Charles Bird King, Paul Kane, Seth Eastman, Carl Wimar,
John Mix Stanley, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran.
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