Artists and illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900
By: by Robert Taft
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Artists; Illustrators; American Painting; American Drawing; History; History in art
Description: A survey of the pictures and illustrations of the Western United States during the period 1850 to 1900 and the men who made them.
Notes: Reissue of the 1953 edition.--cf. Dust jacket.

List of illustrators. John Mix Stanley -- Charles Koppel -- Gustav Sohon -- John E. Weyss -- Arthur Schott -- H.B. Möllhausen -- W.J. Hays -- W.M. Cary -- T.R. Davis -- A.R. Waud -- Alfred E. Mathews -- Joseph Becker -- Frenzeny-Tavernier -- Jules Tavernier -- Paul Frenzeny -- Henry Worrall -- Vincent Colyer -- [Otto Becker] Cassily Adams -- John Mulvany -- Ogden and Yeager -- William A. Rogers -- Mary H. Foote -- Charles Graham -- Rufus F. Zogbaum -- Frederic Remington -- Henry F. Farny -- Charles Schreyvogel -- Dan Smith -- H.W. Hansen -- J.H. Smith -- J.H. Sharp -- H.W. Caylor -- Ernest L. Blumenschein -- William R. Leigh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John M. Stanley and the Pacific Railroad surveys --; title: Heinrich Baldwin Möllhausen --; title: William Jacob Hays and W.M. Cary --; title: Theodore R. Davis and Alfred R. Waud --; title: Alfred E. Mathews --; title: The joining of the rails --; title: Western excursions --; title: Indigenous artists -- Henry Worrall --; title: Custer's last stand --; title: The Leslie excursion of 1877 --; title: William Allen Rogers and Mary Hallock Foote --; title: Charles Graham and Rufus F. Zogbaum --; title: Remington in Kansas --; title: Artsits of indian life -- Henry F. Farny --; title: The end of an era --; title: Connecting links --; title: Sources and notes --; title: Index.