West Point: Points West. (Western Passages No. 1).
by Denver Art Museum
Category: Art

This book is a catalog of an exhibition held at the Denver Art Museum in 2002. The museum celebrated the conjoining of military mission and artistic pursuit. Five distinguished scholars offer varying perspectives on the seminal role played by West Point and the U.S. Army in the development of the art of the American West. Officers of the Corps of Topographical Engineers take center stage in these essays, whether they engaged civilian artists to records their explorations or served as expeditionary artists themselves. Their stories explore the ways in which West Point's 19th century graduates helped building not just forts and dams, but the foundations of American cultural life.