Map on endpapers. " ... published to document an exhibition ... which was shown at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis, November 11, 2000-January 31, 2001. The original symposium, St. Louis: Cradle of Western American Art, 1830-1900 was held in St. Louis on September 27, 1996 by the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in honor of its sesquicentennial."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-117) and index.
Contents:
An early haven for art in St. Louis / John Neal Hoover -- Cradle of Western American art / Joseph Ketner -- Bodmer and Catlin on the upper Missouri / Joseph Porter -- Four oil paintings of Indian chiefs / Carol Clark -- St. Louis' lost Western landscapes / Angela Miller -- St. Louis, Montana and Charles M. Russell / John Taliaferro -- The prints of George Caleb Bingham / Ron Tyler -- Picturing change: early St. Louis photography / Martha A. Sandweiss -- St. Louis, the cradle of Western American art: one perspective / Joni L. Kinsey -- A small portfolio of additional 19th century photographs at the Mercantile Library -- Artists in St. Louis and the West in the 19th century, a brief listing -- About the exhibition, St. Louis and the art of the frontier, a checklist of major works.
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