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Karl Bodmer's studio art : the Newberry Library Bodmer collection / W. Raymond Wood, Joseph C. Porter, and David C. Hunt.
"To document the natural history and inhabitants of the American West, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to accompany him on his 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Beginning in St. Louis, they journeyed as far as inland waterways could take them, through present-day Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and into Montana." "During the expedition, twenty-three-year-old Bodmer sketched and painted a wealth of landscapes and Native American portraits that would be immortalized as engravings in Maximilian's published journals and accompanying atlas. Now considered the most vivid and instructive depiction of the nineteenth-century American West and its people prior to the decimation of many Plains tribes by disease, Bodmer's artwork continues to intrigue historians, scholars, and collectors." "This volume collects Bodmer's studio art, a series of compositions he created in his Paris studio. These images, thirteen of them previously unpublished, are augmentations of the artist's expeditionary sketches and watercolors rendered in the complicated process of completing the aquatints. The publication of the Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, together with five sketches from the Baltimore Museum of Art, brings together nearly all of Bodmer's extant works not previously collected in book form. Karl Bodmer's Studio also includes sketches that Bodmer did not use for later paintings or engravings."--Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 0252027566
- ISBN: 9780252027567
- ISBN: 9780252074615
- ISBN: 0252074610
- Physical Description: ix, 164 pages : (some color) illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2002.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction / W. Raymond Wood -- The Eyes of Strangers: "Fact" and Art on the Ethnographic Frontier, 1832-34 / Joseph C. Porter -- A Publication History of Karl Bodmer's North American Atlas / David C. Hunt -- The Plates.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 78 .W5 W66 2002 | 267975 | Stacks | Available | - |