American Frontier Life - Early Western Painting and Prints - Hardcover

Tyler, Ron; Clark, Carol -etal.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896596915 ISBN 13: 9780896596917

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Introduction by Peter H. Hassrick. Bound in the publisher's original rust cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Trappers, emigrants, adventurers and traders were elevated into ideal frontier types in 19th century American painting. The picturesque sentimentality of much of this art is on display in a traveling exhibiton documented by this album. However, the catalogue is interesting for a number of reasons. Besides stalwarts like George Caleb Bingham, Alfred Jacob Miller and George Catlin, the volume includes several less well-known painters. One of them, Charles Deas, lived among the Indians and portrayed their lives with deep feeling. Essays document the role that popular lithographs played in transmitting frontier images to a broad audience. A handful of the pictures are valuable as an ethnographic record of vanishing folkways. The text also demonstrates that writers such as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper influenced the painters' pioneer vision.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

This is the catalog of a traveling exhibition of Western American paintings and prints executed mostly during the first half of the 19th century. Here again are familiar figures like Catlin, Miller, Stanley, Bingham, et al., but in a slightly different context: they are presented as ethnographers who use narrative paintings, and lithographs of those paintings, to report on life in a land far from the Eastern consumers of these images. The authors of the seven essays commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center also make an effort to relate the images to literary reportage of the same time and place. Recommended. Raymond L. Wilson, formerly with Humanities Dept., San Francisco State Univ.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0896596915
• ISBN 13: 9780896596917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202