Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

A common theme of western American art--from the depictions of Indians by early explorers to the monumental landscapes of Albert Bierstadt to the vibrant images of Georgia O'Keeffe--is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this handsome book, leading authorities look at western American art of the past three centuries, reevaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history, and American studies. Jules David Prown begins the book by discussing the need for interdisciplinary approaches to broaden the study of western American art. Nancy K. Anderson then calls for a reconsideration of western art as art rather than documentation and for the adoption of new methods to probe its aesthetic, historical, political, and cultural complexities. William Cronon explores what an environmental historian might learn from American landscape art, concluding that each image must be read as a multilayered view intertwining past, present, and future within a larger context of progress and expansionism. Examining representations of American Indians, Brian W. Dippie finds that early works pictured Indians caught up in a process of dramatic change while later artists showed them frozen outside of time; when the frontier ended, western art made nostalgia its defining characteristic. Martha A. Sandweiss argues that the ways in which views of the American west and its peoples reached nineteenth-century audiences--through large edition prints, book illustrations, or theatrical exhibitions--significantly affected both the images and the meanings attached to them. Susan Prendergast Schoelwer challenges popular perceptions of the frontier as a womanless domain, discovering abundant pictures of Native American women in the art of the western fur trade. Howard R. Lamar concludes by discussing the changing perceptions of western artists and inhabitants of their region's landscape in the twentieth century. Publication of this book will coincide with an exhibition organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, opening at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.

Arts & Photography

Sandweiss, Martha A.

Cronon, William

Anderson, Nancy K.

Prown, Professor Jules David

Dippie, Professor Brian W.

Schoelwer, Ms. Susan Prendergast

Lamar, Professor Howard R.

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This handsome book presents a major reinterpretation of western American art of the past three centuries-from the depictions of Indians by early explorers to the monumental landscapes of Albert Bierstadt to the vibrant images of Georgia O`Keeffe-reevaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history, and American studies.

A rich narrative and detailed documentation of the 54th regiment give insight into Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ famous Civil War Memorial On July 18, 1863, six months after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment suffered great losses, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry legitimized the idea of blacks serving in the military, and Lincoln considered their sacrifice a turning point in the Civil War. Twenty years later, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens began work on a bronze memorial for this heroic troop, which was installed on the Boston Common in 1897.
Tell It With Pride explores the enduring significance of this beloved monument. Original daguerreotypes, carte-de-visite portraits, and a full listing of the regiment’s members, along with vintage and contemporary artworks by Matthew Brady, Lewis Hine, and Carrie Mae Weems tell the story of the legacy of the Battle of Fort Wagner and the role of photography in memorializing the regiment then and now.

Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial

Greenough, Sarah

An illuminating look at how the Pre-Raphaelite movement was embraced by a group of vanguard American artists Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer—an English expatriate and acolyte of the hugely influential English critic John Ruskin—the American Pre-Raphaelite artists followed Ruskin’s dictum to depict nature close up and with great fidelity. Many members of the group (including Farrer, who served in the Union army during the American Civil War) were also abolitionists, and several created works with a rich political subtext. Featuring the work of artists such as Fidelia Bridges, Henry and Thomas Charles Farrer, Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and William Trost Richards, this generously illustrated volume is filled with insightful essays that explore the influence of Ruskin on the American artists, the role of watercolor and photography in their work, symbolism and veiled references to the Civil War, and much more.

The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists

Barringer, Tim

Mitchell, Mark D.

Ferber, Linda S.

Gallati, Barbara Dayer

Lynford, Sophie

Simon, Janice

Waggoner, Diane

In his more than forty years as a scholar and teacher of American art, John Wilmerding (currently professor at Princeton University and formerly deputy director at the National Gallery of Art, Washington) has assembled a collection of fifty-one exceptional paintings and drawings by nineteenth-century American landscape artists who have been of particular scholarly interest to him. American Masters from Bingham to Eakins, which accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is the first book to present and document this important collection, and will be widely welcomed by students, scholars and admirers of American art. collection includes superb examples by Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Edwin Church, John F. Peto, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. the book features a comprehensive catalogue of the collection with detailed descriptions of each work, information on provenance and exhibition history, and large-format illustrations.

American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection

Kelly, Franklin

Chotner, Deborah

Brock, Charles M.

Sprague, Abbie N.

Lund Humphries Pub Ltd

Thomas Moran

Describes an exhibit at the National Gallery, the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, and the Seattle Art Museum

Moran, Thomas

Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Seattle Art Museum

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Natl Gallery of Art

By Nancy K. Anderson with contributions by Willian C. Sharpe - Alexander Nemerov - Large 9x11" 228 page paperback is profusely illustrated with art reproductions. Copyright 2003, published by National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night

Sharpe, William

Nemerov, Alexander

Individual Artists

Princeton Univ Pr

George De Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings

National Gallery of Art

Albert Bierstadt, Cho-Looke, the Yosemite Fall: Cho-Looke, the Yosemite Fall : May 3-June 15, 1986, Timken Art Gallery, San Diego : Exhibition (Focus Exhibition Catalogues Ser)

Putnam Foundation

Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition.

Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise

Hudson Hills Pr

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