Research Catalog

Title

Yosemite : art of an American icon / edited by Amy Scott.

Publication

Los Angeles : Autry National Center ; Berkeley : In association with University of California Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Scott, Amy, 1971-
• Oakland Museum of California.
• Museum of the American West.
• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art.

Description

221 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

A new view of Yosemite's visual history is represented by presenting two hundred works of art together with essays that explore the rich intersections between art and nature in this incomparable Sierra Nevada wilderness. Integrating the work of Native peoples, it provides the first inclusive view of the artists who helped create an icon of the American wilderness by featuring painting, photography, basketry, and other artworks from both well-known and little-studied artists from the nineteenth century to the present, such as, John Muir, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Thomas Ayres, Albert Bierstadt, William Bradford, Carrie Bethel, Anne Brigman, Thomas Hill, William Henry Jackson, Ansel Adams, Gregory Kondos, Georgia O'Keefe, Lucy Telles, Wayne Thiebaud, Charles Weed, Carleton E. Watkins, Marguerite Thompson and William Zorach, and more.

Alternative Title

Art of an American icon

Subject

• Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > Catalogues d'exposition
• Landscape painting, American > Yosemite National Park > Exhibitions
• Landscape photography > Yosemite National Park > Exhibitions
• Indian art > Yosemite National Park Region > Exhibitions
• Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 2006-Apr. 22, 2007; Oakland Museum of California, May 19-Sept. 2, 2007; Nevada Museum of Art, Oct. 13, 2007-Jan. 13, 2008; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Mar. 22-Aug. 9, 2008.
• "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Yosemite calls / Amy Scott -- "Niagara magnified" : finding Emerson, Muir, and Adams in Yosemite / William Deverell -- California as kingdom come / Kate Nearpass Ogden -- Yosemite on glass / Gary F. Kurutz -- Native American art of the Yosemite region / Brian Bibby -- Photography's workshop : Yosemite in the modern era / Jennifer A. Watts -- Revisiting Yosemite / Amy Scott -- Epilogue : Yosemite falls again / Jonathan Spaulding -- Selected artist biographies / Laureen Trainer -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Contributions.

ISBN

• 0520249216 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520249224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780520249219 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520249226 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006012105

OCLC

66463690

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library