The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality
- ISBN-10
- 1882507088
- ISBN-13
- 9781882507085
- Series
- The American West
- Category
- Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Trust for Museum Exhibitions
- Author
- Peter H. Hassrick
Description
Western art of America's frontier years, from about 1825 to 1925, has traditionally been perceived as the art most representative of the country's cultural and historical essence. European American explorers were accompanied or soon followed by adventuresome artists whose drawings and paintings provided the first glimpses that eastern audiences had of this vast region and captured both its romantic allure and its commercial possibilities. The artists - Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas Moran, Fanny R. Palmer, Frederick Remington, Charles M. Russell, and John Mix Stanley, among others - presented a fabulous vision of the West that was at once Edenic and bountiful as well as dangerous and forbidding.
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