~66 Charles Marion Russell Running Buffalo, 1918 Oil on...

The most distinctive feature of what is called western American art is its rejection finally of the one thing westering always seemed to be about: change. In the nineteenth century change was implicit in every rendering of a western theme. If tree stumps represented progress to a pioneering people, so...

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Brian W. Dippie

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.89-115

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15733&redirecttoanchor=19307

Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artFrontier and pioneer life in artIndians in artArt and historyIndians of North America--West (U.S.)--History--19th century

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The Homestead of Ellsworth L. Ball

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameCover, Sallie

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1880–1890

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions19 1/2 × 23 in. (49.5 × 58.4 cm)

LocationNebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln

http://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/16F9E5F4-AFFA-445D-9771-322700447955

Accession number810P-1

The Homestead of Ellsworth L. Ball

The Hall Garden at Four P.M.

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameDolan, Elizabeth

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions32 × 39 1/2 in. (81.3 × 100.3 cm)

LocationSheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

Accession numberH–23.1928

The Hall Garden at Four P.M.

Gregorita

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameHenri, Robert

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions36 × 26 in. (91.4 × 66 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/0137570

Accession number0137.570

Gregorita

Music in the Plaza (Santa Fe Plaza)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameSloan, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1920

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 32 in. (66 × 81.3 cm)

LocationNew Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/asitem/People$00403343/1

Accession number326.23P

Music in the Plaza (Santa Fe Plaza)

Storm, Taos Mountain, New Mexico

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMarin, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1930

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions16 3/4 × 21 5/8 in. (42.5 × 54.9 cm)

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488369

Accession number49.70.144

Storm, Taos Mountain, New Mexico

Symbols of Taos

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameLockwood, Ward

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm)

Symbols of Taos

New Mexican Village

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameDasburg, Andrew

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1939

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)

LocationNew Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

http://sam.nmartmuseum.org/view/objects/asitem/People$004081/0

Accession number111.23P

New Mexican Village

American Gothic

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameWood, Grant

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1930

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on beaverboard

Dimensions29 7/8 × 24 7/8 in. (76 × 63.3 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/6565

Accession number1930.934

American Gothic

Destination Nowhere

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameDixon, Maynard

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1941

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on masonite

Dimensions35 7/8 × 40 in. (91.1 × 101.6 cm)

LocationBrigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah

Accession number820038689

Destination Nowhere

Gold Mining, Cripple Creek

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameLawson, Ernest

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1929

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions40 × 50 1/8 in. (101.6 × 127.3 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14395

Accession number1949.10.2

Gold Mining, Cripple Creek

Portrait of Gerald Marr

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameHurd, Peter

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1952–1953

Object typePainting

MaterialsTempera on masonite

Dimensions22 1/4 × 30 3/8 in. (56.5 × 77.1 cm)

LocationColorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado

Portrait of Gerald Marr

Bill Smith—Number One

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameBama, James E.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1974

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions22 1/2 × 24 in. (56.5 × 61 cm)

LocationNational Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City

Bill Smith—Number One

Near Alcalde, New Mexico

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameO'Keeffe, Georgia

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1931

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions7 × 8 3/4 in. (17.8 × 22.2 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/53337

Accession number1984.32.21

Near Alcalde, New Mexico

Hernandez Church, New Mexico

New Mexican Landscape

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameHartley, Marsden

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1918

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on artist board

Dimensions23 7/8 × 31 3/4 in. (60.6 × 80.6 cm)

New Mexican Landscape

Autumn Reflections

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameCumbow, Alice

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1951

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions15 5/16 × 23 9/16 in. (38.9 × 59.8 cm)

LocationSheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

Accession numberN–539.1976

Autumn Reflections

Northeast of Greenwood '82

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameJacobshagen, Keith

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1982

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions29 3/4 × 55 3/4 in. (75.5 × 141.6 cm)

LocationGreat Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Northeast of Greenwood '82

In from the Night Herd

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameRemington, Frederic

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1908

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 × 40 in. (68.6 × 101.6 cm)

LocationNational Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City

In from the Night Herd

The Buffalo Hunt

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameWimar, Charles Ferdinand

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1860

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions35 1/4 × 152.4 in. (89.5 × 152.4 cm)

LocationMildred Lane Kemper Museum, Washington University in St. Louis

http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/1483

Accession numberWU 3411

The Buffalo Hunt

Description: Red-Eyed and Foaming Prone the Monster Falls, As in His Shaggy Side Is Sheathed the...

Red-Eyed and Foaming Prone the Monster Falls, As in His Shaggy Side Is Sheathed the Poisoned Barb (Hunting Buffalo)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameDarley, Felix Octavius Carr

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1842

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and ink on paper

Dimensions9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in. (24 × 34.5 cm)

LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut

Red-Eyed and Foaming Prone the Monster...

Red-Eyed and Foaming Prone the Monster Falls, As in His Shaggy Side Is Sheathed the Poisoned Barb (Hunting Buffalo)

Fort Snelling

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameSully, Alfred

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1855

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor on paper

Dimensions8 3/8 × 11 5/8 in. (21.3 × 29.5 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/02261336

Accession number0226.1336

Fort Snelling

Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa

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Sep 06

Creator nameMelrose, Andrew W.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1867

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions25 1/2 × 46 in. (64.8 × 116.8 cm)

LocationCollection E. William Judson

Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its...

Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way—near Council Bluffs, Iowa

Snow Sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Sep 06

Creator nameBecker, Joseph

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1869

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions19 × 26 in. (48.3 × 66 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/01361212

Accession number0136.1212

Snow Sheds on the Central Pacific...

Snow Sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

Irrigating at Strawberry Farm

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameHill, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1865

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on board

Dimensions12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.8 × 48.3 cm)

LocationThe Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Irrigating at Strawberry Farm

Mining in the Boise Basin in the Early Seventies

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameFavorite Brown, Margaretta

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1870–1880

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions27 × 21 in. (68.6 × 53.3 cm)

LocationIdaho State Historical Society

Mining in the Boise Basin in the Early...

Mining in the Boise Basin in the Early Seventies

Spanish Peaks from Raton Pass

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameWhittredge, Worthington

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1866

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on paper laid down on canvas

Dimensions7 1/8 × 23 1/4 in. (18.1 × 59.1 cm)

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Spanish Peaks from Raton Pass

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMoran, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and graphite on paper

Dimensions11 1/4 × 8 in. (28.6 × 20.3 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/02261619

Accession number0226.1619

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Indians on Green River

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/2 × 36 in. (54.6 × 91.4 cm)

LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/0126732

Accession number0126.732

Indians on Green River

American Progress

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameGast, John

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions12 3/4 × 16 3/4 in. (32.4 × 42.5 cm)

LocationAutry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles

http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M545330;type=101

Accession number92.126.1

American Progress

Title Page for Beyond the Mississippi

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator name (description)After Thomas Nast

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typePrint

Title Page for Beyond the Mississippi

Title page

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameDöpler, Karl Emil, I

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1856

Object typePrint

LocationGeorge W. Colton, Colton's Atlas of the World, vol. 1 (New York, 1856), Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Title page

Last of Their Race

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 06

Creator nameStanley, John Mix

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1857

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions43 × 60 in. (109.2 × 152.4 cm)

LocationBuffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

https://collections.centerofthewest.org/view/last_of_their_race

Accession number5.75

Last of Their Race

Ku-ra-tu, Kaibab Paiute Woman

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameHillers, John K.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1872

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsStereograph

LocationSociété de Géographie, Paris

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530672689/f17.item

Accession numberF. 9; no. 8

Ku-ra-tu, Kaibab Paiute Woman

Group of Officers and Assistants at Rendezvous Camp near Belmont, Nevada

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameO'Sullivan, Timothy H.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1871

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen print

LocationSociété de Géographie, Paris

Group of Officers and Assistants at...

Group of Officers and Assistants at Rendezvous Camp near Belmont, Nevada

Running a Rapid

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameMuller, Richard Alexander

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1875

Object typePrint

MaterialsXylograph

LocationBibliothèque Administrative de la Ville de Paris

Running a Rapid

View from Monument no. VI, looking towards monument no. V

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameSchott, Arthur

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1857

Object typePrint

LocationUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor

View from Monument no. VI, looking...

View from Monument no. VI, looking towards monument no. V

Middle Creek near Blackmore, Montana

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameJackson, William Henry

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1873

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen print

LocationMusée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Middle Creek near Blackmore, Montana

Five Views of Yosemite

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameWatkins, Carleton E.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1865

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen print on mount from collodion-on-glass negatives

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

Accession numberPHO 1987 33 15; PHO 1987 33 14 2; PHO 1987 33 14 3; PHO 1987 33 14 4; PHO 1987 33 14 5

Five Views of Yosemite

Paiute Group, Cedar, Utah

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameBell, William H.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1872

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen print

LocationSociété de Géographie, Paris

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b530847210/f3.item

Accession numberF. 1; no. 1

Paiute Group, Cedar, Utah

Summit of Wahsatch Mountains, Sliding Down, Utah

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 26

Creator nameO'Sullivan, Timothy H.

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1869

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsStereograph

LocationSociété de Géographie, Paris

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53067289k/f100.item

Accession numberF. 100; No. 195

Summit of Wahsatch Mountains, Sliding...

Summit of Wahsatch Mountains, Sliding Down, Utah

Christmas Dinner for the Men on the Trail

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 10

Creator nameRussell, Charles Marion

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1905

Object typePainting

MaterialsOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite underdrawing on paper

LocationAmon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/christmas-dinner-men-trail-1961100

Accession number1961.1

Christmas Dinner for the Men on the...

Christmas Dinner for the Men on the Trail

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