Research Catalog

Title

James Swan, chā-tic of the Northwest Coast : drawings and watercolors from the Franz & Kathryn Stenzel collection of western American art / by George A. Miles.

Author

Miles, George A.

Publication

[New Haven, Conn.] : Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University ; [Hanover, N.H.] : Distributed by University Press of New England, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Swan, James Gilchrist.
• Stenzel, Franz.
• Stenzel, Kathryn M. (Kathryn Mathison)
• Swan, James G., 1818-1900

Description

160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 2 maps; 25 x 32 cm.

Summary

• "In November 1852 James Swan moved to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington Territory. Fascinated by the Indian communities he encountered, Swan spent the remainder of his life studying their art, material culture, and history. The author of several books, he became the Smithsonian Institution's principal agent in the Northwest, collecting natural history and ethnographic objects from Gray's Harbor through the Alaskan panhandle.
• He lived among the Makah Indians of Neah Bay where he taught school and was among the first Americans to visit the Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands." "Known as an avid correspondent and diarist (he kept a daily journal for the last 41 years of his life), Swan was also a talented draftsman who sketched many of the people he met, the places he visited, and the events he witnessed. He also commissioned and collected work by Indian artists he befriended.
• 115 drawings from his collection, donated to the Yale Collection of Western Americana by Franz and Kathryn Stenzel, are reproduced here, nearly all of them for the first time. They provide a striking, visual record of the Northwestern frontier. Introductory essays trace Swan's life as well as the role Dr. and Mrs. Stenzel played in preserving his drawings."--Jacket.

Subject

• Swan, James Gilchrist > Exhibitions
• Stenzel, Franz > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Stenzel, Kathryn M. > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Swan, James G., 1818-1900 > Exhibitions
• Yale Collection of Western Americana > Exhibitions
• Indians in art > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections > Northwest, Pacific > Exhibitions
• Art > New Haven > Exhibitions
• Northwest, Pacific > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• This book accompanies the exhibition entitletd James Swan, Chā-tic of the Northwest Coast, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 18-July 19, 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Franz and Kathryn Stenzel Collection -- James Swan: Cha-tic of the Northwest Coast -- Botanical Watercolors -- Early Drawings from the Olympic Peninsula -- Tattoos -- Neah Bay Revisited -- The Queen Charlotte Islands -- Works by Johnny Kit Elswa -- Marine Life -- Rough Sketches.

ISBN

0845731475

LCCN

^^2003004946

OCLC

• 51817390
• SCSB-10488481

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library