Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
GEORGE CATLINS AMERICAN BUFFALO
Adam Duncan Harris
€ 46.99
€ 46.06
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for GEORGE CATLINS AMERICAN BUFFALO
Hardcover.
This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872), one of the first artists of European descent to travel up the Missouri river following the buffalo and the native Americans who hunted them. On the Oklahoma prairie, Catlin witnessed a landscape blackened by millions of bison, and recorded the traditions of its indigenous people. On one level Catlin's paintings offer an insight into 19th-century American ideas about the land and animals of the Continent. But he was also the first to champion the notion of a national park to protect the buffalo and native American people, that he ... Read more
This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872), one of the first artists of European descent to travel up the Missouri river following the buffalo and the native Americans who hunted them. On the Oklahoma prairie, Catlin witnessed a landscape blackened by millions of bison, and recorded the traditions of its indigenous people. On one level Catlin's paintings offer an insight into 19th-century American ideas about the land and animals of the Continent. But he was also the first to champion the notion of a national park to protect the buffalo and native American people, that he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
ANTIQUE COLLECTORS CLUB
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907804328
SKU
V9781907804328
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Adam Duncan Harris
Adam Duncan Harris has been the Petersen Curator of Art and Research at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, since 2000. He has written extensively on art, most recently Bob Kuhn: Drawing on Instinct (2012), George McLean: The Living Landscape (2010) and Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art (2009).
Reviews for GEORGE CATLINS AMERICAN BUFFALO