Branding the American West : paintings and films, 1900-1950 / edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme ; with contributions by Marian Wardle, Sarah E. Boehme, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., LeAnne Howe, Elizabeth Hutchinson, John Ott, Dean Rader, and Susan S. Rugh ; biographies of aSrtists by Ann Kathryn Hartvigsen ; foreword by Katrina Nelson Thomas and Mark Allen Magleby.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900-1950, organized by the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, and the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Brandings / Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme -- Part of the strangeness : notes on landscape, branding, and the American West / Dean Rader -- Westward contraction : Maynard Dixon paints the Great Depression / John Ott -- The weary West / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr -- Branding the Southwest for tourists / Susan S. Rugh -- Taos and its other neighbors : intertribal visiting in Taos School painting / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Imagine there's no cowboy : it's easy if you try / Leanne Howe -- Artist biographies / Ann Kathryn Hartvigsen.
Series:
Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; Volume 23
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