9781907804328 - George Catlin's American Buffalo by Harris, Adam Duncan (7 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872), one of the first artists of European descent to travel up the Missouri river following the buffalo and the native Americans who hunted them. On the Oklahoma prairie, Catlin witnessed a landscape blackened by millions of bison, and recorded the traditions of its indigenous people. On one level Catlin's paintings offer an insight into 19th-century American ideas about the land and animals of the Continent. But he was also the first to champion the notion of a national park to protect the buffalo and native American people, that he portrayed so vividly in his paintings. Many of the artist's own journal entries accompany the featured paintings; together they present a complex character, whose vision still informs much of today's ecological debate about the future of America's Great Plains. This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872) and gives an insight into 19th-century American ideas about the land and animals of the North American continent. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Presenting forty major oil paintings by George Catlin from the mid-late 1830s, this volume re-examines the legacy of this complex artist. Many of Catlin's paintings were produced following his 1832 expedition down the Missouri River, past the prairie lands of Oklahoma, where he witnessed the landscape blackened by millions of bison. On one level Catlin's paintings offer an insight into nineteenth-century American ideas about the land and animals of the continent. But he was also the first to champion the notion of a national park to protect the buffalo and Native American people, that he portrayed so vividly in his paintings. Re-examines Catlin's art and his vision of a 'nation's park' to protect the buffalo and native American people.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872), one of the first artists of European descent to travel up the Missouri river following the buffalo and the native Americans who hunted them. On the Oklahoma prairie, Catlin witnessed a landscape blackened by millions of bison, and recorded the traditions of its indigenous people. On one level Catlin's paintings offer an insight into 19th-century American ideas about the land and animals of the Continent. But he was also the first to champion the notion of a national park to protect the buffalo and native American people, that he portrayed so vividly in his paintings. Many of the artist's own journal entries accompany the featured paintings; together they present a complex character, whose vision still informs much of today's ecological debate about the future of America's Great Plains. This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872) and gives an insight into 19th-century American ideas about the land and animals of the North American continent. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.