Author: Nancy McClure

Nancy now does Grants & Foundations Relations for the Center of the West's Development Department, but was formerly the Content Producer for the Center's Public Relations Department, where her work included writing and updating website content, publicizing events, copy editing, working with images, and producing the e-newsletter Western Wire. Her current job is seeking and applying for funding from government grants and private foundations. In her spare time, Nancy enjoys photography, reading, flower gardening, and playing the flute.

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902). "The Last of the Buffalo," ca. 1888. Oil on canvas. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 2.60

Albert Bierstadt exhibition: generous donors

July 5, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West would not have been possible without the generous support of many donors. For this funding in support of the scholarly catalogue and major […]

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1889, black and white photographic print, 8 x 10 inches.

Bierstadt in Paris

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

When Bierstadt’s painting The Last of the Buffalo was displayed in Paris in 1889, his urgent message about the looming extinction of American bison was amplified to an international audience. […]

Bierstadt: In Service of Manifest Destiny?

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Albert Bierstadt’s paintings may have contributed to the profound changes occurring in the American West in the late 1800s. Across Bierstadt’s thirty-year career, his depictions of an idealized western landscape […]

Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830–1902). The Buffalo Trail, 1867. Oil on canvas, 31.875 x 48 inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865. 47.1268

Bierstadt: Buffalo Trails

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

We hope you enjoy the short, five-minute video (the next stop, iScout 172), which calls your attention to aspects of Albert Bierstadt’s paintings, The Buffalo Trail, The Buffalo Trail: Impending […]

William Holbrook Beard (1824 –1900). ON THE PRAIRIE, 1869. Colored engraving. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, 1964.52

Bierstadt: Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Albert Bierstadt studied art in Germany alongside noted American landscape and animal painters Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard. The three later became neighbors in the famous Tenth Street Studio […]

William Jacob Hays (1830–1875). A HERD OF BISON CROSSING THE MISSOURI RIVER, 1863. Oil on canvas. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 3.60

Bierstadt: William Jacob Hays, Champion of the Bison

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

William Jacob Hays, a friend of Bierstadt’s, was awestruck by the bison herds along the Missouri, and wrote, “On my way down the river I saw thousands of buffalo; they […]