Karl Bodmer's Studio Art
Subtitle: THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY BODMER COLLECTION
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780252027567
Subjects: Area / regional studies; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Individual artists; Native Americans; Special Subjects In Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Western & Pacific Coast states; History - General; Art / Individual Artist; Fine Arts; 1809-1893; Bodmer, Karl,; Indians in art; Indians of North America; Pictorial works; Portraits; West (U.S.)
First sentence: After the explorations of the 1500s brought Europeans together with indigenous peoples around the globe, contact with cultures that were considered exotic and alien prompted European theories and speculation about the peoples of the world.
Description: "To document the natural history and inhabitants of the American West, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to accompany him on his 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Beginning in St. Louis, they journeyed as far as inland waterways could take them, through present-day Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and into Montana.".

"During the expedition, twenty-three-year-old Bodmer sketched and painted a wealth of landscapes and Native American portraits that would be immortalized as engravings in Maximilian's published journals and accompanying atlas. Now considered the most vivid and instructive depiction of the nineteenth-century American West and its people prior to the decimation of many Plains tribes by disease, Bodmer's artwork continues to intrigue historians, scholars, and collectors.".

"This volume collects Bodmer's studio art, a series of compositions he created in his Paris studio. These images, thirteen of them previously unpublished, are augmentations of the artist's expeditionary sketches and watercolors rendered in the complicated process of completing the aquatints. The publication of the Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, together with five sketches from the Baltimore Museum of Art, brings together nearly all of Bodmer's extant works not previously collected in book form.

Karl Bodmer's Studio also includes sketches that Bodmer did not use for later paintings or engravings."--BOOK JACKET.