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Visions of the American West CHAPTER 5: Kicking up dust Chapters If they weren’t painting craggy mountains or wide–open fields, artists in the AmericanWest were most likely trying to capture the athleticism of animals. The Charge [A Cavalry Scrap] by Frederic Sackrider Remington is an apt example: though the staggering canvas depicts a horde of horsemen, the horses themselves are the clear stars […]

Visions of the American West CHAPTER 4: Hard times in the American West Chapters It’s no secret that life on the frontier in the early- and mid-nineteenth century was difficult. Landscapes transformed, families dispersed, and loved ones were lost. While William Gilbert Gaul’s The Land of the Free places such suffering at center stage, other works—like Worthington

Visions of the American West CHAPTER 3: Painting the American sublime Chapters For artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Thomas Hill, the American West was a vast frontier of epic scale, with seemingly endless horizons and equally infinite possibilities. These artists’ common belief in sublime experience—a concept borne from German Romanticism—is made manifest

Visions of the American West CHAPTER 2: Crossing boundaries: the art of the art trade Chapters Like today’s art market, systems of trade drove much art production in the nineteenth century. Navajo chief blankets, for example, were originally crafted for ceremonial reasons, but ultimately became valuable commercial items in their own right. The Schild Ledger

Visions of the American West CHAPTER 1: Introduction Chapters Spanning over a century, the Blanton’s collection of Western art features a range of perspectives, including romanticized images of both the American cowboy and Native American cultures. Many of the artists subscribed to the nineteenth-century doctrine of Manifest Destiny—the belief that the U.S. was predestined to expand

PAST EXHIBITION American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting OPENS February 26, 2012 CLOSES May 13, 2012 SHARE About the Exhibit February 26, 2012 – May 13, 2012 This spring The Blanton Museum is pleased to present American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, featuring 116 paintings from the Hudson River School, a

PAST EXHIBITION Go West! Representations of the American Frontier OPENS January 14, 2012 CLOSES September 23, 2012 SHARE About the Exhibit January 14, 2012 – September 23, 2012 The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Go West! Representations of the American Frontier, an exhibition exploring the pioneering American West as both