ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST : A Biographical Dictionary (3 VOLUME SET)

BRAND New 3-VOLUME SET. Vol I, ISBN 0-8040-067-5, 1st Edition, 2nd printing of 1980; Vol II, 0-8040-0352-1,1st Edition, First Thus; and, Vol III: 0-8040-0851-5; and Vol III, 0-8040-0851-5, 1987 reprint. Uniform dust jackets. Volume III carries an Index to all three volumes. All artists included were born before 1900, born in various countries --- amateurs or professionals, trained or untrained, were part of the milieu of America's West (roughly the 17 states west of the 95th meridian). Their world was the West of Indians & trappers, cowboys & longhorns, troopers & forts, pioneers & wagons, mining & agriculture, lumbering & railroad building, mountains, valleys, and deserts. Their depictions are records of the new and fresh of those years, with a viable place in art history as well as invaluable visual historical documentation. Doris Dawdy also assembled The Annotated Biography of American Indian Paintings. Fine collection.