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Early Painters of the American Indian Remembered
Elmo Scott Watson reviews the pioneer artists who recorded Native life from Catlin to Stanley and Bodmer. He notes Catlin's 1830s quest, Stanley’s Mexican War era work, Bodmer’s Missouri journey, Cary’s frontier scenes, and other notable contributors who preserved crucial pictorial records of Indigenous peoples and settings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
United States
Red Man
George Catlin
Catlin
trans-Mississippi West
Wyoming
Philadelphia
Far West
Washington
West
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
John Mix Stanley
Stanley
Prairies
New Mexico
California
Oregon
Canadaigua
N. Y
Detroit
Naples
Chicago
Galena
Ilinois
Fort Snelling
Minn
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Cincinnati
Louisville
Keokuk
Black Hawk
Santa Fe
General Kearney
San Diego
Whitman
San Francisco
New York
Cape Horn
Hawaii
Kamahameha III
Government Museum
Royal Palace
Honolulu
St. Paul
Puget Sound
Congress
Carl Bodmer
Prince Maximilian of
Bodmer
Plains
Missouri
New York City
William de la Montagne Cary
Missouri River
St. Louis