Carl Bodmer Paints the Indian Frontier
Date
1954
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Smithsonian Institution
Abstract
An exhibition index and descriptive text for the 1954 Smithsonian traveling exhibition of Bodmer's original sketches and watercolors. Green wraps. 25 pp. 9 bw plates. Short essays by Karl Viktor Prinz zu Wied and John C. Ewers and a catalogue of the 118 works in the exhibition: 29 landscapes (mostly watercolors), 24 Indian life and customs (pencil and/or watercolor), 52 portraits of Indians (mostly watercolors), 11 animals and plants (watercolor or pencil), and 2 drawings by Indians.
Description
6.75 x 9.75 inch booklet in wrapper, 26 unnumbered pages.
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Keywords
Indians of North America, Indians in Art, Traveling Exhibitions, Karl Bodmer