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The lure of the great West

Title
The lure of the great West, by Frank Getlein and the editors of Country beautiful.
Author
Getlein, Frank.
Publication
Waukesha, Wis., Country Beautiful [1973]

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Description
352 pages illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Uniform Title
Country beautiful.
Subject
  • Art > United States
  • Art
  • West (U.S.) > In art
  • United States
  • West United States
Genre/Form
  • works of art.
  • Art.
  • Œuvres d'art.
Contents
  • The Lure of the West -- The Original Inhabitants -- Images of Indians: Two Views: John Vanderlyn & Edward Hicks -- First Champion of the Indians: George Catlin -- Illustrator to the Prince: Karl Bodmer -- Young Man on a Western Holiday: Alfred Jacob Miller -- Soldier as Artist: Seth Eastman -- The Mellow River Life: George Catch Bingham -- Painter of the First Cowboys: William Ranney -- On a Turn of Fortune's Wheel: John Mix Stanley -- Theater of Melodrama: Charles Deas -- The Spanish Southwest: James Walker -- A Wide Measure of Grandeur: Worthington Whittredge -- A Luminous Touch: Sanford Robinson Gifford -- The Organizer: Karl Wimar -- The Artist of Yosemite: Thomas Hill -- The Selling of the West: Albert Bierstadt -- Nature in Gentle Tones: Samuel Colman.
  • Master of the Mountains: Thomas Moran -- With Dashing Style: Walter Shirlaw -- Western Jet-Setter: William Keith -- When Legends Were Made: William de la Montagne Cary -- Seer of Truth: Thomas Eakins -- Of Epic Circumstances: Howard Pyle -- Days of Quiet Beauty: Henry F. Farny -- Portrait of the Longhorn: Frank Reaugh -- A Flair for Drama: Charles Schreyvogel -- He Knew the Horse: Frederic Remington -- The Best of the Company: Charles Russell -- A Late but Lively Arrival: William Robinson Leigh -- The People, Above All: John Sloan -- A Convincing Scene: E.C. Ward -- Western life in Miniature: Olaf Carl Seltzer -- Whom America Loved: N.C. Wyeth -- From Inside the Eternal West: Georgia O'Keeffe -- They Also Served -- The West in Three Dimensions.
ISBN
  • 0872940373
  • 9780872940376
LCCN
73078884
OCLC
  • ocm00805076
  • 805076
  • SCSB-267494
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library