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List of illustrations

  • Advertisement for McCormick and Company
  • Across the Continent" from How to Go West: An Immigrant and Traveler's Guide (Chicago: Burlington, 1872)
  • Girandoles
  • Armchair
  • Covered Compote (Pioneer Pattern, or "Westward Ho!")
  • Indian Chief
  • Distant View of Niagara Falls
  • Head of an American Indian and Bust of an American Indian
  • Pocahontas
  • The Purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians by the Dutch, in 1626
  • County Election
  • Souvenir program for Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World
  • Ryerson Monument: The Alarm
  • The Buffalo Hunt, plaster model displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
  • Indian Scout, plaster model displayed on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
  • The Signal of Peace
  • The End of the Trail
  • The Soul of the Continent (Black Bear)
  • Locked in Death (Dear and Panther)
  • Chassagoac
  • Brown Moose
  • Marquette Building lobby, 140 South Dearborn Street, Chicago
  • Arrival of Marquette at the Chicago River
  • The Vow of Vengeance
  • Native American objects displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
  • Cliff Dwelling exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago`
  • Black Rock (Ee-Ah-Sa-Pa)
  • Edward Everett Ayer
  • Blanket Strip
  • Storage Basket
  • Hamlin Garland in camp
  • Indian Reservations West of the Mississippi
  • The Moqui Runner (The Moqui Prayer for Rain—The Returning of the Snakes)
  • Ghost Dance (The Vision of Life)
  • An Athlete Wrestling with a Python
  • Laocoön
  • Geronimo
  • Chief Geronimo, Apache
  • Candelario's Curio Shop, Santa Fe
  • Elbridge Ayer Burbank's studio in the Fine Arts Building, 410 Michigan Avenue, Chicago
  • Chief Keokuk, Sac & Fox
  • Chief Pretty Eagle, Crow
  • Chief Naiche, Apache
  • Gáhé Dance
  • Si-We-Ka, Pueblo, reproduced in the Santa Fe Railway "Aztec Calendar
  • Ko-Pe-Ley, Moqui
  • Ho-Mo-Vi, Moqui
  • Ne-I-So-Meh, Yuma
  • Hom-O-Vi, Hopi (Sichomovi)
  • Lah-She, Hopi (Sichumovi)
  • Che-Pa-So-Meh, Diegeno
  • Che-Pa-So-Meh, Diegeno
  • Curley, Custer Scout, Crow
  • Curley, Crow
  • Naiche, Apache
  • Chief Tja-Yo-Ni
  • Physical Liberty, plaster model displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis
  • The Sun Vow
  • MacNeil's Sun Vow in front of Ragdale, Lake Forest Illinois
  • Pueblo stage set at the Cliff Dweller's Club, Chicago
  • Punch Bowl
  • Corrugated Pottery Vessel
  • Pitcher
  • Spurs (Decorated in the "Aztec Taste")
  • Pueblo Bowl
  • Vase (Ear of Corn)
  • Pipe Bag
  • Tree of Life" Window, designed for the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York
  • Vessel
  • Carpet, designed for the Henry B. Babson house, Riverside, Illinois
  • Students in the Sculpture Class, School of the Art Institute
  • Art Student Actors
  • Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System
  • El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon
  • Chief's Blanket (Third Phase)
  • Storage Basket
  • The Indian Room in the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque
  • Taos Tourists
  • Wal-Si-See (Good Medicine), reproduced in Santa Fe Railway Calendar
  • Summit of the Sierras
  • The Taos Society of Artists; Left to right, standing: Walter Ufer, W. Herbert Dunton, Victor Higgins, Kenneth Adams; seated: E. Martin Hennings, Bert G. Phillips, E. Irving Couse, Oscar E. Berninghaus; front row: Joseph H. Sharp, Ernest L. Blumenschein
  • Central Business Section of Chicago, Looking West
  • Taos Pueblo
  • Dance at Taos Pueblo
  • The Solemn Pledge: Taos Indians
  • Jim and His Daughter
  • Self-Portrait
  • Land of Mañana
  • Fiesta Day (To the Fiesta)
  • Spring Rains
  • Builders of the Desert
  • The Canyon Trail
  • To the Dance (The Apaches)
  • Indians on the Warpath
  • Bedcover (Depicting Native American Scenes)
  • Bedcover (Settling of the West)
  • Mayor William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson (left) and George F. Harding (right)
  • The Advance Guard or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)
  • Call the Doctor
  • A Mexican Vaquero
  • The Mexican Major
  • The Bronco Buster
  • General John Logan Memorial
  • Kit Carson
  • The Cheyenne
  • The Old Dragoons of 1850
  • Death of the King of the Herd
  • Episode of the Buffalo Gun
  • Tom Mix in his Beverly Hills home
  • I Will Tell the White Man How He Can Have His Ponies Back or White Otter Defies the White Man
  • Nothing But Cheerful Looks Followed the Bat or Admiring Eyes Followed White Otter
  • Historians of the Tribe
  • Publicity for Davis's and Remington's departure for Cuba
  • The Guns Must Be Delivered (The Advance)
  • How the Horses Died for Their Country at Santiago
  • The Chicago Strikes--United States Infantry in the Stock Yards. 'To Hell with the United States Government!'
  • 'Giving the Butt'--The Way the 'Regular' Infantry Tackles a Mob
  • Coming through the Rye or Over the Range
  • Mayor William Hale Thompson (second from right) at the start of the Cowboy Parade in Grant Park, Chicago, with the Santa Fe building in the left background
  • View of George F. Harding's Castle, 4853 South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago (demolished in 1960)
  • The Remington Room in Harding's Castle
  • The Remington Room in Harding's Castle
  • American Indian Symbols
  • Ready for the Fiesta
  • Alice Corbin Henderson and William Penhallow Henersom, Taos, New Mexico
  • Spring, Abiquiu
  • Spring, Casa Lucero
  • Tourists watching a performance of the Eagle Dance in front of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe Fiesta
  • Eagle Dance, San Ildefonso
  • Comanche Dance, Acoma #1
  • Comanche Dance, San Ildefonso
  • Harvest Dance at Jimenez
  • Sunset Dance before the Race, Taos
  • Ute Dance at Tesuque
  • Gustave Baumann, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Church, Ranchos de Taos
  • Bright Angel Trail
  • Piñon, Grand Canyon
  • The Deer Hunt
  • Beginning of the Fiesta
  • San Geronimo, Taos
  • Corn Dance, Santa Clara
  • Strangers from Hopi Land
  • B.J.O. Nordfeldt
  • Tres Ritas
  • Summer Dusk (Solitude)
  • Antelope Dance
  • Corn Dance
  • Deer Dance, Tesuque, New Mexico
  • Tewa Koshare (Kossa)
  • Corn Dance at Zia
  • American Indian Dance
  • Three Puebloan Dancers
  • Koshares Climbing the Pole
  • Tracing from a Zuni Bowl
  • Tracing from a Zuni Bowl
  • A Moki Interior
  • A Moki Girl
  • Navajo Woman at Thoreau, New Mexico
  • Plate with Geometric Border
  • Installation view of Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Black Cross, New Mexico
  • Blanket or Rug
  • Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
  • Red Hills with Flowers
  • The Black Place
  • Mountain Forms, New Mexico
  • Valley of Hondo, New Mexico
  • The Last of New England--The Beginning of New Mexico
  • Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico
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Contents
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Director's Foreword
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Description: Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890–1940
In Chicago, during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, University of Wisconsin Professor of History Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper in the Hall of Congresses (today The Art Institute of Chicago) entitled...
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In the summer of 1893, the wide-eyed visitor to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago would have seen a vast, gleaming array of white Italian-ate buildings, interspersed with lagoons complete with Venetian gondolas, landscaped slopes and gardens, and abundant outdoor statuary. What might have seemed odd amid this overwhelming emulation of...
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the two destinies faced by the Indian—extinction versus assimilation—occupied Chicago collectors interested in the West. This Janus-like characterization in fact reflected a broader crisis in American intellectual life: the uneasy balance of modernism and antimodernism, progress and nostalgia....
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Carter Harrison, Jr.'s, successor, Big Bill Thompson, was the antithesis of the urbane, sophisticated collector mayor. William Hale Thompson was born in 1868 to wealthy Boston parents who had relocated to Chicago and intended that their son...
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Frederic Remington, the Arts and Crafts practitioners, and the early Taos painters looked to the West as an escape from the strains of contemporary urban life and the ennui of an increasingly heterogeneous national culture. Based on an attraction to a seemingly simpler, better place and time, the romantic (and reactionary) quest for enduring values took a...
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Glossary
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Checklist of the Exhibition
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier 1890–1940
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