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9780875652429

Different Travellers, Different Eyes : Artists' Narratives of the American West, 1820-1920

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  • ISBN13:

    9780875652429

  • ISBN10:

    0875652425

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Summary

The early American West has been depicted in art as a land of harsh struggles, a place of heavenly miracles, and everything in between. Different Travellers, Different Eyes records impressions of life on the nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American frontier by twenty-one artists better known for their paintings, sculptures, and photographs. Most but not all the selections come from journals or diaries kept during trips to the West.

Thomas Moran, for instance, notes what others must have felt, that "the impression then made upon me by the stupendous and remarkable manifestations of nature's forces will remain with me as long as memory lasts". That impression of grandeur echoes the vast and dramatic canvasses Moran created on his trips west.

Different Travellers, Different Eyes is not an art history book. The narrators are not art historians. Their works adorn the walls of museums, fill the pages of art books, fetch large sums at auction, and (as reproductions) illustrate histories of the early American West. Chances are slim, however, that the casual

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
``Virgin Land,'' 1820--1848
1(88)
Titian R. Peale (1799--1885)
5(10)
George Catlin (1796--1872)
15(14)
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810--1874)
29(12)
John James Audubon (1785--1851)
41(20)
Father Nicolas Point (1799--1868)
61(12)
Paul Kane (1810--1871)
73(8)
Samuel Chamberlain (1829--1908)
81(8)
The Gold Rush and Aftermath, 1849--1869
89(44)
Frank Marryat (1826--1855)
93(10)
Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815--1897)
103(12)
Balduin Mollhausen (1825--1905)
115(10)
Worthington Whittredge (1820--1910)
125(8)
After the Railroad, 1870--1890
133(54)
William Keith (1838--1911)
137(10)
Kicking Bear (Mato Wanahtaka) (c.1847--1904)
147(6)
Mary Hallock Foote (1847--1938)
153(16)
Frederic Remington (1861--1909)
169(18)
After the Closing of the Frontier, 1891--1920
187(74)
Thomas Moran (1837--1926)
191(12)
Emily Carr (1871--1945)
203(16)
Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874--1960)
219(8)
Maynard Dixon (1875--1946)
227(10)
Edward S. Curtis (1868--1952)
237(12)
Charles M. Russell (1864--1926)
249(12)
Selected Bibliography 261(4)
Index 265

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