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In this richly illustrated volume, Nicole Dawn Strathman explores how indigenous peoples throughout the United States and Canada appropriated the art of photography and integrated it into their lifeways. The photographs she analyses date to the first one hundred years of the medium, between 1840 and 1940.

As one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the western landscape. This splendid colour volume highlights his achievements in chronicling a rapidly changing American West.

Representations of first contact - the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans - have always had a central place in America's historical and visual record. Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about constructing national myths.

So highly regarded was John Mix Stanley 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 offers an opportunity to rediscover his remarkable accomplishments.

Originally published as a photographic travelogue and guide to British investment in the American this account is both idiosyncratic and emblematic of its time. The republication of this extremely rare volume makes available an important primary document of a brief but pivotal historical moment connecting the American West and the British Empire.

The early years of twentieth-century Pacific Northwest painting remain shrouded in mystery. In this groundbreaking work, John Impert introduces readers to the rich and varied array of artists and works of art that defined the region's artistic transition from a nature-bound impressionism to the arrival of modernism.

Louise Siddons fills a curious gap in the history of American art by exploring - and indeed salvaging - J. JayMcVicker's career and contributions to international modernism. Featuring nearly one hundred colour reproductions of McVicker's works, Centering Modernism showcases the extraordinary range of his artistry.

In this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one of America's Last Great Places, the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma.

This lavishly illustrated visual history shows how American artists, writers, and tourists travelling to France exported the dominant frontier narrative that presupposed manifest destiny - and how Native American performers with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and other traveling groups challenged that view.

Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905-2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. This beautiful volume, featuring more than 100 colour and black-and-white illustrations, is the first comprehensive exploration of Strong's life and artistry.

Traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century to World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts from which they emerged.

Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and Maynard Dixon fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume examines paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West.

Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

One of America's most influential artists, Frederic Remington is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the artist's body of work.

Though hardly known outside the Three Corners Region of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, the fate of Picher echoes well beyond its borders. Picher, Oklahoma reflects the broader intersections of memory, time, material objects, and changing environments, demanding our attention even as it resists easy interpretation.

John James Audubon found the Great Plains and their wildlife so riveting when he visited the region in 1834 that he broke off a letter to his wife because he was too excited to write. This book reminds us of the remarkable bounty contained in the wild beauty and rich history of the Wyoming grasslands.

Art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.

Makes use of hundreds of images of Charles M. Russell, many never before published, to explore the role of photography in shaping the artist's public image and the making and selling of his art. More than that, the book shows how the Cowboy Artist personified what he portrayed.

Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown's lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.

The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected in this book. It showcases 100 illustrations by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country assignment in 1873 and 1874.

In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This handsome book--a companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price--showcases many of the artist's best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

Uses the comparison of old and new images to reveal alterations through time - and the encroachment of a built environment - across diverse landscapes. This book is at once a tribute to the artistic achievements of a premier landscape artist and a photographer who followed in his footsteps.

From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border, the northern Rocky Mountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive power. In Visions of the Big Sky, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness.

For nearly half a century, celebrated historian Ron Tyler has researched, interpreted, and exhibited western American art. This splendid volume, gleaned from Tyler's extensive career of connoisseurship, brings together eight of the author's most notable essays, reworked especially for this volume.

In July 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park. Also on the expedition was a young photographer, Frank Jay Haynes. This elegant - and fascinating - book showcases Haynes's remarkable photographic album from the six-week journey.

The depictions of the people, places, and events of "Indian Country" included in this volume defined the region for contemporary American and European audiences. Today they provide a rich visual record of a key era of western and Oklahoma history - and of the ways that art has defined this important cultural crossroads.