Research Catalog

Title

St. Louis and the art of the frontier : proceedings of a symposium, St. Louis, Cradle of Western American Art, 1830-1900 / edited by John Neal Hoover.

Author

St. Louis, Cradle of Western American Art, 1830-1900 (1996 : Saint Louis, Mo.)

Publication

[St. Louis, Mo.] : St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis, 2000.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hoover, John Neal
• St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis

Description

xxvii, 120 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 27 cm.

Alternative Title

Saint Louis and the art of the frontier

Subjects

• Artists > Missouri > Saint Louis > Congresses
• Art, American > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Saint Louis (Mo.) > Civilization > 19th century > Congresses
• Frontier and pioneer life in art > Congresses
• Indians in art > Congresses

Note

• Map on endpapers.
• " ... published to document an exhibition ... which was shown at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis, November 11, 2000-January 31, 2001. The original symposium, St. Louis: Cradle of Western American Art, 1830-1900 was held in St. Louis on September 27, 1996 by the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in honor of its sesquicentennial."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-117) and index.

Contents

An early haven for art in St. Louis / John Neal Hoover -- Cradle of Western American art / Joseph Ketner -- Bodmer and Catlin on the upper Missouri / Joseph Porter -- Four oil paintings of Indian chiefs / Carol Clark -- St. Louis' lost Western landscapes / Angela Miller -- St. Louis, Montana and Charles M. Russell / John Taliaferro -- The prints of George Caleb Bingham / Ron Tyler -- Picturing change: early St. Louis photography / Martha A. Sandweiss -- St. Louis, the cradle of Western American art: one perspective / Joni L. Kinsey -- A small portfolio of additional 19th century photographs at the Mercantile Library -- Artists in St. Louis and the West in the 19th century, a brief listing -- About the exhibition, St. Louis and the art of the frontier, a checklist of major works.

Call Number

JQF 08-2650

ISBN

• 0963980424 (cloth)
• 9780963980427 (cloth)
• 0963980432 (pbk.)
• 9780963980434 (pbk.)

LCCN

00107729

OCLC

46655237

Conference

St. Louis, Cradle of Western American Art, 1830-1900 (1996 : Saint Louis, Mo.)

Title

St. Louis and the art of the frontier : proceedings of a symposium, St. Louis, Cradle of Western American Art, 1830-1900 / edited by John Neal Hoover.

Imprint

[St. Louis, Mo.] : St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis, 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-117) and index.

Added Author

Hoover, John Neal

St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis

Research Call Number

JQF 08-2650