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Indepth Arts News:
"Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum"
2001-04-14 until 2001-06-10
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL,
USA United States of America
Lure of the West features
more than 60 paintings and
sculptures from the 1820s
to the 1940s created by
American artists fascinated
with the American West.
The exhibition tells the story
of Western American art
beginning in the early 19th
century, when
explorer-artists such as
George Catlin traveled
through vast territories
painting the Native
American populations and
scenes of their everyday
life.
Later in the century,
other artists such as Albert
Bierstadt and Thomas
Moran focused on the drama of the landscape. Their paintings are
credited with helping to establish some of the great western national
parks and were important in forming the mystique of the West,
eventually popularized in literature and film.
IMAGE:
Charles Bird King (1785-1862)
Young Omahaw,
War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees
1821
Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 28 in.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum,
Gift of Miss Helen
Barlow, 1985.66.384,222
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