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The artists who came and formed the tight-knit northern New Mexican
artistic community that flourished between the wars and later were
as diverse as the styles they developed and brought with them. Not
all, of course, were painting in the modern idiom, but it is
undeniable that many of the most talented and interesting of these
painters were.
These diffuse elements fuse with a strong regional feeling in the
art of the New Mexico modernists. The roots of this tradition lay
in a centuries-old tradition of Western art, culture and myth. What
is fascinating to today's viewer is to note how they worked to tap
into the spirit and feeling of a land which was home to human
culture for centuries before the white man arrived. What is truly
fascinating is to see how well they succeeded in melding this
ancient place with their own modern times. This catalogue explores
the styles of 12 of the most important and influential artists
including Andrew Dasburg, Frank Applegate, Emil Bisttram and Cady
Wells.
As one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters,
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic
paintings of the western landscape. Yet Bierstadt was also a
painter of history, and his figural works, replete with images of
Plains Indians and the American bison, are an important part of his
legacy as well. This splendid full-color volume highlights his
achievements in chronicling a rapidly changing American West. Born
in Germany, Bierstadt rose to prominence as an American artist in
the late 1850s and enjoyed nearly two decades of critical success.
His paintings propelled him to the forefront of the American art
scene, but they also met with reproach from his peers and critics
in the press who viewed his painting style as outmoded. Bierstadt's
star has both risen and fallen as modern art historians have
reconsidered his complex oeuvre. This volume takes a major step in
reappraising Bierstadt's contributions by reexamining the artist
through a new lens. It shows how Bierstadt conveyed moral messages
through his paintings, often to preserve the dignity of Native
peoples and call attention to the tragic slaughter of the American
bison. More broadly, the book reconsiders the artist's engagement
with contemporary political and social debates surrounding wildlife
conservation in America, the creation and perpetuation of national
parks, and the prospects for the West's indigenous peoples.
Bierstadt's final history paintings, including his dual masterworks
titled The Last of the Buffalo - a special focus of this volume -
stand out as elegiac odes to an earlier era, giving voice to
concerns about the intertwined fates of Native peoples and
endangered wildlife, especially bison. Along with its rich sampling
of Bierstadt's diverse artwork, Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a
Changing West features informative essays by noted curators,
scholars of art history, and historians of the American West.
This book, featuring the life and works of Ralph Blakelock,
situates him in the context of American art. Representing over
twenty years of study and the examination of several thousand works
attributed to him, "Beyond Madness" reveals the unusual nature of
Blakelock's life story as it offers clear parallels to his
painting. Largely self-taught and supported by few patrons,
Blakelock regularly struggled with the financial pressures of
supporting his nine children and pursuing his art. Called both
brilliant and doomed, and institutionalized on and off for the last
decade of his life, he nonetheless created some of the most
beloved--and some of the most frequently forged--paintings in the
American canon. As in the author's own time, modern assessments of
his work are often colored by notions of Blakelock the man, leading
to a paradoxical legacy of suffering and hope, obscurity and
prominence. Taking Blakelock's art on its merits, "Beyond Madness"
stands as a testament to the indefatigable spirit of art
scholarship as well as a tribute to the artist and his enduring
passion for the creative process. It finally casts new light on the
life and character of Blakelock and on the nature of the
incomparable art he contributed to the American tradition.
Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), one of the most
celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a
sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work
that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the
Smithsonian Institution - where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but
seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of
Stanley's extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an
opportunity - and ample reason - to rediscover the remarkable
accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century
American culture. Originally from New York State, Stanley journeyed
west in 1842 to paint Indian life. During the U.S.-Mexican War, he
joined a frontier military expedition and traveled from Santa Fe to
California, producing sketches and paintings of the campaign along
the way - work that helped secure his fame in the following
decades. He was also appointed chief artist for Isaac Stevens's
survey of the 48th parallel for a proposed transcontinental
railroad. The essays in this volume, by noted scholars of American
art, document and reflect on Stanley's life and work from every
angle. The authors consider the artist's experience on government
expeditions; his solo tours among the Oregon settlers and western
and Plains Indians; and his career in Washington and search for
government patronage, as well as his individual works. With
contributions by Emily C. Burns, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa
Strong, Melissa Speidel, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Emily C. Wilson, the
essays in this volume convey the full scope of John Mix Stanley's
artistic accomplishment and document the unfolding of that uniquely
American vision throughout the artist's colorful life. Together
they restore Stanley to his rightful place in the panorama of
nineteenth-century American life and art.
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Charles Deas and 1840s America (Hardcover)
Carol Clark; Contributions by Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Frederick E. Hoxie, Guy Jordan; Foreword by Peter H. Hassrick, …
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Charles Deas (1818-67), an enigmatic figure on the edge of
mainstream artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York,
went west to explore new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From
his adopted hometown of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings
of fur trappers and Indians back east for exhibition and sale,
briefly winning the recognition that had earlier eluded him.
This handsome volume--featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70
in color--is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas. In two
major essays, Carol Clark presents Deas's haunting biography and
complex art--works that embodied Americans' uncertainty about the
future of their rapidly expanding nation, especially in the
contested spaces of the West. Ranging from Indian genre scenes to
more violent and bizarre themes drawn from literature and his own
imagination, Deas's images reverberate with the racial tensions and
cut-throat economic competition of the period. Three additional
essayists examine the historical, political, and social context of
Deas's art and discuss in detail two of his major paintings,
"Walking the Chalk and Long Jakes, "the Rocky Mountain Man.""
The volume also includes Clark's catalogue of Deas's paintings,
watercolors, and drawings--the most extensive recovery and
documentation to date of the work of this important but
little-known artist. "Charles Deas and 1840s America" will
constitute the definitive reference on the painter for years to
come.
A remarkable testament to the enduring culture, power, and myth of
the American West This handsome book displays an extraordinary
breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present,
including over 140 artists in some 320 beautiful color
reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American
artists including Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Charles M.
Russell, and Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as under-explored artists
such as Walter Ufer and Kevin Red Star, address the fascinating
topics and themes of Native American culture, American politics,
land conservation, and the implications of Manifest Destiny. The
historical art featured here helped to shape our perceptions of
Native Americans, cowboys, and western landscapes; the recent and
contemporary pieces shed a modern light on western cultures and
challenge long-held myths and assumptions about the American West.
Art of the American West is timed to coincide with the opening of a
new expansion to the Tacoma Art Museum, brilliantly designed to
house these artworks and to connect with and contribute to the
city's culture and history. Lavishly illustrated, the book also
includes insightful essays written by some of the most important
scholars working with this material today. This privately held
collection is published here for the first time. Published in
association with the Tacoma Art Museum
Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), one of the most
celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a
sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work
that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the
Smithsonian Institution - where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but
seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of
Stanley's extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an
opportunity - and ample reason - to rediscover the remarkable
accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century
American culture. Originally from New York State, Stanley journeyed
west in 1842 to paint Indian life. During the U.S.-Mexican War, he
joined a frontier military expedition and traveled from Santa Fe to
California, producing sketches and paintings of the campaign along
the way - work that helped secure his fame in the following
decades. He was also appointed chief artist for Isaac Stevens's
survey of the 48th parallel for a proposed transcontinental
railroad. The essays in this volume, by noted scholars of American
art, document and reflect on Stanley's life and work from every
angle. The authors consider the artist's experience on government
expeditions; his solo tours among the Oregon settlers and western
and Plains Indians; and his career in Washington and search for
government patronage, as well as his individual works. With
contributions by Emily C. Burns, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa
Strong, Melissa Speidel, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Emily C. Wilson, the
essays in this volume convey the full scope of John Mix Stanley's
artistic accomplishment and document the unfolding of that uniquely
American vision throughout the artist's colorful life. Together
they restore Stanley to his rightful place in the panorama of
nineteenth-century American life and art.
Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The
American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that
display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to
rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the
pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi. Fascinating
texts offer a fresh look at the roles that artists played in
creating interpretations of the "vanishing West"-whether based on
fact, fiction, or something in-between. These artists, including
Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, embody a range of life
experiences and artistic approaches. Some grew up in the West and
based their artwork on first-hand experience, while others never
set foot west of the Rockies. Four thematic sections-Indians,
animals, cowboys, and settlers-are illustrated with new photography
and provide a cultural overview to the works presented. Also
included are biographies of the artists, each illustrated with a
vintage portrait, plus an illustrated chronology of historical and
artistic events. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of
Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (12/17/13-04/13/14) Denver Art Museum
(05/09/14-08/31/14) Nanjing Museum (October 2014-January 2015)
One of America's most popular and influential American artists,
Frederic Remington (1861-1909) is renowned for his depictions of
the Old West. Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he
immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians,
hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. Frederic Remington: A
Catalogue Raisonne II is a comprehensive presentation of the
artist's body of flat work, both in print and on this book's
companion website. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150
figures and 100 color plates, this book offers insightful essays by
notable art historians who explore Remington's experiences in Taos,
New Mexico, and other parts of the West. The chapters include
analyses of Remington's artistic development from an illustrator to
a fine art painter, his search for and understanding of ""men with
the bark on,"" his relationship with the famed illustrator Howard
Pyle, and the shared imagery of Remington and ""Buffalo Bill""
Cody. A chapter considering Remington's enduring bond with the
horse and its representation in his paintings follows an
examination of Remington's ties to Theodore Roosevelt that reveals
how the two men helped move the American conscience toward wildlife
preservation. An assessment of the authentication process for
evaluating Remington's works opens the collection: Remington is
perhaps the most frequently faked American artist. The book
features a unique keycode granting access to a companion website
that brings together more than 3,000 reproductions of the artist's
flat works, including the complete original 1996 edition of the
Catalogue Raisonne and nearly 300 previously unknown or relocated
pieces. Each entry includes the title, date, medium, size,
inscriptions, provenance, and exhibition and publication history of
the work, as well as select commentary. The online catalogue is
fully searchable and will be continuously updated as new
information becomes available. Based on decades of scholarship and
research, the revised Remington Catalogue Raisonne is an essential
resource for scholars, collectors, museum curators, historians of
the American West, and anyone seeking definitive information on the
art of Frederic Remington. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonne
II is published in cooperation with the Buffalo Bill Center of the
West, Cody, Wyoming.
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