Plain pictures
Subtitle: images ofthe American prairie
By: Joni L. Kinsey.
Publisher: Published for the University of Iowa by the Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Middle West in art.; Prairies in art.; Pastoral art -- United States.
Description: Bountifully illustrated with 160 years of artistic responses to both the vast grasslands and agricultural expanses of the Midwest, Plain Pictures is the first book to address representations of the midwestern Prairie as a genre distinct from American western art. In a wide-ranging narrative, Joni Kinsey argues that images of the grassland, far from being plain, offer a paradox of their own: the significance of the subject is equaled only by the struggle to express it.

One hundred twenty color and black-and-white reproductions showcase works by George Catlin, Worthington Whittredge, Albert Bierstadt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Terry Evans, and many others.
Notes: Bibliography: p225-232. - Includes index.