American artist Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) joined Sir William
Drummond Stewart, a Scottish nobleman and adventurer, to chronicle
a journey in 1837 to the Rocky Mountains to attend an annual
gathering of fur traders. Miller became the first, and perhaps
only, artist to paint the legendary fur trade from firsthand
knowledge. Thereafter, Miller based his art on the rich experiences
from that trip.
"Romancing the West" presents thirty captivating works on paper,
spanning the subjects and techniques that the artist developed over
more than thirty years. Mainly studio works in various stages of
completion and in a sometimes unorthodox fusion of media, they
provide a window onto not only how Miller worked, but how he
envisioned the American West.
Margaret C. Conrads is the Samuel Sosland Senior Curator of
American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City,
Missouri. The other contributors include William H. Truettner, Lisa
Strong, Kathleen A. Foster, and Stephanie Fox Knappe.
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