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 aquatints and woodcuts 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 remarkable 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 These images, thirteen of them previously unpublished, are augmentations of the artist's expeditionary sketches and watercolors rendered in the complicated process of completing the aquatints.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 all of Bodmer's extant works not previously collected in book form. "Karl Bodmer's Studio Art" also includes sketches that Bodmer did not use for later paintings or engravings.
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Captured the imaginations of the western world then and now,
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This review is from: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY BODMER COLLECTION (Hardcover)
Collaboratively written by W. Raymond Wood (Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia), Joseph C. Porter (Chief Curator, North Carolina Museum of History), and David C. Hunt (Director, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas), and enhanced with numerous black-and-white illustrations and studio art reproductions, Karl Bodmer's Studio Art is a truly captivating collection of images and an informative, scholarly study of the works of Karl Bodmer, a Swiss artist whom Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected for an 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Bodmer sketched and painted landscapes and Native American portraits which uniquely captured the imaginations of the western world then and now. Enthusiastically recommended for academic and community library Art History and American History reference collections, Karl Bodmer's Studio Art focuses more on the story of Bodmer's journey than the art itself, yet both the text and the illustrations have a timeless appeal.
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After the explorations of the 1500s brought Europeans together with indigenous peoples around the globe, contact with cultures that were considered exotic and alien prompted European theories and speculation about the peoples of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Four Bears, Fort Union, North America, New York, United States, American Fur Company, Fort Clark, Karl Bodmer, Upper Missouri Outfit, New Harmony, Broken Bone, Fort Pierre, Prince Maximilian, Two Ravens, Early Western Travels, The Eyes of Strangers, University of Nebraska Press, Joslyn Art Museum, George Catlin, Newberry Library, James Kipp, Plains Indian, South Dakota, Hudson's Bay Company, William Clark New!
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Four Bears, Fort Union, North America, New York, United States, American Fur Company, Fort Clark, Karl Bodmer, Upper Missouri Outfit, New Harmony, Broken Bone, Fort Pierre, Prince Maximilian, Two Ravens, Early Western Travels, The Eyes of Strangers, University of Nebraska Press, Joslyn Art Museum, George Catlin, Newberry Library, James Kipp, Plains Indian, South Dakota, Hudson's Bay Company, William Clark New!
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- Early Western Travels by R. Thwaites on 8 pages
- North American Indians (Penguin Classics) by George Catlin on 4 pages
- The Omaha Tribe, Volume 1 by Alice C. Fletcher on 4 pages
- Fur Trade by Paul C. Phillips on 4 pages
- Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes by Thomas Loraine McKenney on page 100, page 116, and page 121
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