The Frederic Remington Studio

Arts & Photography

Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Hassrick, Peter H.

Remington, Frederic

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Charles M. Russell: The Artist in His Heyday, 1903-1926

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Old Faithful Geyser, Emerald Spring, the magnificent canyons and falls of the Yellowstone River: these and other sites, familiar to the millions of visitors who travel through Yellowstone National Park each year, have been an inspiration to generations of artists. Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and dozens of other artists have braved difficult conditions to capture the splendors of Yellowstone in many media, from delicate watercolors and pen-and-ink sketches to powerful oils and popular lithographs. They have portrayed the animals that lived there, the humans who passed through, and above all the remarkable features that have made Yellowstone a wonderland to so many artists and observers.

Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Old Faithful geyser, Emerald Spring, the magnificent canyons and falls of the Yellowstone River: these and other sites, familiar to millions of visitors who travel through Yellowstone National Park each year, have been an inspiration to generations of artists. Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and dozens of other artists braved difficult conditions to capture the splendors of Yellowstone in many media, from delicate watercolors and pen-and-ink sketches to powerful oils and popular lithographs. 
From the moment of its inception in 1872, Yellowstone was simultaneously an aesthetic experience and a potent force in America?s search for national identity. By the 1890s, it was known as ?the Nation?s Art Gallery.? It was from Yellowstone that an artistic energy flowed, like the waters that pulse from its geysers, to captivate a nation and contribute to its philosophical and aesthetic history. In Drawn to Yellowstone, Peter Hassrick traces the artistic history of the park from its earliest explorers to the present day.

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Examines the life and career of the renowned sculptor, illustrator, and painter of the American West

Frederic Remington

Random House Value Publishing

Here, for the first time in a single volume, is the history of the mightiest air armada the world has ever seen, from its creation to its triumph in the Second World War - a story of brilliantly innovative military strategists and daring fliers who mastered challenges unprecedented in the history of warfare. Beginning with the nascent Air Service's successful aerial search for the "Lost Battalion" during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918, acclaimed military historian Geoffrey Perret brilliantly brings to life the people and the drama behind the great aerial offensives of World War II. Winged Victory tells the story of the battles and campaigns fought by the Army Air Forces around the world. Perret emphasizes the part played not only by the leading figures such as Arnold and Spaatz, but by famous bomber commanders such as Doolittle and LeMay; controversial airmen such as Chennault; fighter aces such as Bong and Gabreski; dynamic figures such as Philip Cochran and Casey Vincent (immortalized as Flip Corkin and Vince Casey in Terry and the Pirates); and many others whose leadership and bravery helped create an unbeatable fighting force. Here, too, is the story of the development and combat history of the American fighters and bombers that eventually ruled the air, as well as a recreation of the most important air operations of the war: the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, the early fighting in the South Pacific, the invasion and victory in North Africa, the hard-fought battle for air superiority by the Eighth and Ninth air forces leading up to D-Day, and the strategic bombing offensives against Germany and Japan. Drawing on new material - private diaries, letters, unpublished memoirs, plus unique access to the voluminous research for a biography of Hap Arnold that was never published - Winged Victory presents an indelible portrait of the drama and heroism of combat in the skies.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

[Excerpt from front jacket flap]. Throughout the nineteenth century the Rockies inspired mixed emotions - a paradoxical combination of spiritual response and emotional resistance. Teh towering earth forms were at once awesome, beautiful, and forbidding. It is understandable, then, that the chronicle of men's responses to the Rocky Mountains is a voluminous one. Every means of expression, every form of poetry and prose, has gone into the account; but it was the artists' vision that finally revealed the full splendor, the commanding allure of the West.Following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the vast new territories acquired by the United States became a lure for artists from the eastern seaboard and from European countries. They followed government expeditions; they joined geological explorations; they participated in the excursions of sportsmen. They came to the Rockies with diverse backgrounds, different orientations, and varied painterly techniques, but they would all contribute to the country's growing awareness of the magnificent challenge, beauty, and opportunity of the West.This book focuses on those artists and those works - the product of a period of American history when the Rocky Mountains still embraced a vast, uncharted territory. In one comprehensive survey the authors have traced a broad overview of the development of landscape art in the Rocky Mountains from the works of early scientific-artist reporters on government expeditions to Albert Bierstadt's famous painting The Rocky Mountains (1863), which launched a grand march to the Rockies by professional artists, to the works of Frederic Remington, who sought to preserve a vision of the frontier before it vanished forever.

The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century

Trenton, Patricia

Painting

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

In 1880, Charles M. Russell headed west to Montana, where he worked as a wrangler and chronicled in paint, ink, and watercolor the West and its people. For his splendid depictions of bronco riders, roundups, and everyday ranch life, Russell soon became known as "the Cowboy Artist." Yet this "Cowboy Artist" also spent much time among the Indians and developed a sympathetic understanding of and appreciation for their efforts to preserve their way of life. Russell’s memorable paintings and drawings portray a frontier that was vanishing, not only for Indians but also for cowboys.
Peter H. Hassrick discusses Russell’s work in the context of the artist’s experiences in the West and the people who influenced his artistic style.

Charles M. Russell

University of Oklahoma Press

The definitive retrospective on this prominent twentieth-century American artist One of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists, Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960) was perhaps the most complex and accomplished of all the painters associated with that pioneering organization. His critical acclaim transcended regional confines, and his work continues to be greatly admired. This volume is the definitive work on Blumenschein’s life and art, reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs to form the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published. In Contemporary Rhythm describes not only his place in the Taos colony and western art but also his far-reaching influence on mainstream American art and national aesthetic developments. The text by Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham draws on Blumenschein’s papers as well as other archival sources to explore in depth the dimensions of his multifaceted life and his place in American history and culture. They examine his 64-year artistic career, first as an illustrator and then a painter, revealing how his technique evolved and how his schooling and the artistic movements of his time informed his work. Additional contributions by noted art historians focus on particular paintings and certain aspects of the artist’s work, including his promotion of American Indian rights. As the only book of its kind available on this influential artist, In Contemporary Rhythm is a major contribution to American art history. It is also a visual feast.

In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein (Volume 2)

Cunningham, Elizabeth J.

Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley (Volume 17) (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West)

Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution—where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture. Originally from New York State, Stanley journeyed west in 1842 to paint Indian life. During the U.S.-Mexican War, he joined a frontier military expedition and traveled from Santa Fe to California, producing sketches and paintings of the campaign along the way—work that helped secure his fame in the following decades. He was also appointed chief artist for Isaac Stevens’s survey of the 48th parallel for a proposed transcontinental railroad. The essays in this volume, by noted scholars of American art, document and reflect on Stanley’s life and work from every angle. The authors consider the artist’s experience on government expeditions; his solo tours among the Oregon settlers and western and Plains Indians; and his career in Washington and search for government patronage, as well as his individual works. With contributions by Emily C. Burns, Scott Manning Stevens, Lisa Strong, Melissa Speidel, Jacquelyn Sparks, and Emily C. Wilson, the essays in this volume convey the full scope of John Mix Stanley’s artistic accomplishment and document the unfolding of that uniquely American vision throughout the artist’s colorful life. Together they restore Stanley to his rightful place in the panorama of nineteenth-century American life and art.

Besaw, Mindy N.

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The Frederic Remington Studio

Charles M. Russell: The Artist in His Heyday, 1903-1926

Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park

Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park

Frederic Remington

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century

Charles M. Russell

In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein (Volume 2)

Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley (Volume 17) (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West)