~78 Louis Choris Costumes de femme et têtes de femme...

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Description: Costumes de femme et têtes de femme du golfe de Kotzebue

TitleCostumes de femme et têtes de femme du golfe de Kotzebue

Creator nameChoris, Louis

Creator nationality/cultureRussian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1816

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (14.6 × 19.2 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2017584

Accession numberWA MSS S-260

SubjectsClothing and dress in artHead in artArctic peoplesPainting, Russian--19th century

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4. The Public Life of Western Art

Martha A. Sandweiss

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

Throughout the nineteenth century, much of the art created in and of the American West was produced to satisfy the curiosity of a vast audience intensely interested in the physical appearance of the region’s native peoples and unfamiliar landscapes. From 1819, when Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale went west as members of Major Stephen H. Long’s government-financed exploring...

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Martha A. Sandweiss

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.117-133

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15734&redirecttoanchor=19319

Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artPrints, AmericanFrontier and pioneer life in artAmerica--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial worksArt and society

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