Among the many painters of the early American West—of Native Americans, landscape, wildlife—no artist is more admired and renowned than Karl Bodmer. Here, for the first time, carefully prepared and painstakingly reproduced, is the full range of Bodmer's American work, printed in 359 plates, 257 in full color and 102 in black and white. Here, also for the first time, is the background needed to place Bodmer and his work in the history of his time, exploration, and the American frontier: his life, his American journey, and the subjects he painted and their contexts.
Bodmer accompanied his patron, Prince Maximilian of Wied, to the upper Missouri country in 1982-34. For many years, his work was known only through a picture atlas of eighty-one aquatints—largely Native American subjects—published in Europe soon after the party returned home. His original American art dropped out of sight for a hundred years, but was rediscovered at the Wied estate after World War II. The collection is now held by the Inter-North Art Foundation and is on permanent loan to the Joslyn Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Except for the few selections judged too faint to reproduced, this volume presents that entire collection.
The paintings and sketches constitute a unique visul survey of the American frontier of that day. They follow Maximilian and Bodmer across the United States and some three thousand miles up the Missouri, through the domain of the Sioux, Manans, and Hidatsas, Blackfeet, Assiniboins, and other tribes. They depict landscapes, river views, natural history studies, and views of cities and settlements, as well as Indian portraits and related scenes of aboriginal life.
Karl Bodmer's America is a joint publication of the Joslyn Art Museum and the University of Nebraska Press.

Karl Bodmer's America

Gallagher, Marsha V.

Bodmer, Karl

Hunt, David C.

Travel

University Of Nebraska Press

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the expedition of the German prince Maximilian of Wied and the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to North America, the traveling exhibition âViews of a Vanishing Frontierâ visually recreates the historic journey into the early-nineteenth-century wilderness. The show was organized by the Joslyn Art Museum, where The Inter-North Art Foundation, owner of the priceless Bodmer collection, has placed it on permanent loan. It depicts the epic journey chronologically, combining Bodmerâs magnificent watercolors, Maximilianâs written accounts of the expedition, and artifacts collected by Maximilian.
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This catalogue offers a broad sampling from the showâthirty-four color and thirty-five black and white reproductions that will delight the most demanding connoisseurs. The pictorial record is complemented by selections from Maximilianâs writings. In addition, a long essay by John C. Ewers, Ethnologist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution, examines the ethnological and historical significance of Bodmerâs pictures of Indians, which authorities have judged the finest, most faithful likenesses made before the introduction of photography.
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The book includes a biography of Maximilianâthe prototypical nineteenth-century scientistâby Joseph C. Porter, curator of western American history and ethnology at the Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum. In a third essay, David C. Hunt, curator of western American art, and Marsha V. Gallagher, curator of material culture at the Center for Western Studies, trace the expeditionâs travels to the upper Missouri and review their extraordinary trip of 1832-34.
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Published by the Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum and distributed by the University of Nebraska Press.

Views of a Vanishing Frontier

History

Porter, Joseph C.

Erers, John C.

Americas

Joslyn Art Museum

The Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art Museum is internationally recognized as a priceless record of early nineteenth-century America. Nebraska is fortunate to have this significant collection. Prince Maximilian's meticulous written observations, contained in lengthy journals and letters, are beautifully depicted by hundreds of landscapes and portraits created by Karl Bodmer.

Karl Bodmer's Eastern Views: A Journey in North America

Sears, John F.

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