Bronzes of the American West
"For the first time, the whole story of the Western bronzes is told--sumptuously illustrated, fully documented, and with an introduction by the renowned authority on Western art, Dr. Harold McCracken. Dozens of the artists who have immortalized the American frontier experience are represented, ranging from Colonial times to the present day...Interlacing biographical and critical insights, [the author Patricia Border] explores the recurring themes of Western bronze sculpture and the lives of their most famous interpreters : the Indian as a "noble savage," an idealized and Romantic image based essentially on classical prototypes (Henry Kirke Brow, John Quincy Adams Ward, Olin Levi Warner); the beauty of animals in the wilderness, in whose depiction the Americans (Edward Kemeys, Eli Harvey, Edwin W. Deming) were tutored by the great French animaliers of the nineteenth century; the bond of affection uniting a cowboy and his horse under nature's skies (Solon H. Borglum, Charles M. Russell); the stampeding of buffalo and cavalry troopers over the dust-filled plains (Frederic Remington); the fortitude of pioneer men and women in the harsh drama of the westward migration and settlement (A. Phimister Proctor, Mahonri MacIntosh Young); the bloody suppression of the Indian's civilization in the last century (Cyrus Dallin, Adolph A. Weinman); and the renewed ethnic pride of the Indians today in the solemn beauty of their rituals (Saint Clair Homer, Michael Naranho)"--Dust jacket
Print Book, English, [1974]
Harry N. Abrams, New York, [1974]