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.

Mathew B. Brady, Frederick West Lander, ca. 1857. Half-plate ambrotype. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchase funded by the photography acquisitions endowment established by the Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation. NPG.2016.53

Bierstadt: Early Western Expeditions

June 24, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Bierstadt traveled west in 1859 and 1863. These early expeditions offered the artist his first encounters with the region’s Native peoples, wildlife, and scenery. Bierstadt’s initial trip was in the […]

Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830–1902). The Last of the Buffalo, ca. 1888. Oil on canvas, 60.25 x 96.5 inches. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 2.60

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)

June 24, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Albert Bierstadt’s paintings brought him great fame and fortune early in his career. He was a skilled artist and an ambitious businessman. In his later years, however, his style of […]

Albert Bierstadt, Sunset Light, 1861. Oil on canvas painting. New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA

Bierstadt and the Landscape

June 24, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Albert Bierstadt first rose to artistic fame with his immense paintings of the soaring mountains and broad valleys of the American West. In the 1860s, Bierstadt began a series of […]

Former W.H.D. Koerner studio installation in the Whitney Western Art Museum.

W.H.D. Koerner: A Family Legacy – Points West Online

June 22, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2008 W.H.D. Koerner: A Family Legacy By Mindy A. Besaw W.H.D. Koerner, painter and illustrator, was born in Lunden, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and grew up […]

Albert Bierstadt, Head of Buffalo and Indian, 1888. Oil on board. Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA. 88.108.14

Albert Bierstadt—Witness to a Changing West: Introduction

June 19, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Note: This online presentation does not reflect the exhibition in its entirely. While Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) is recognized for his dramatic paintings of the western American landscape, he also depicted […]

Powwow Grand Entry, 2011. Photo by Ken Blackbird

Powwow, Preserving Tradition and Promoting Cultural Exchange – Points West Online

June 14, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2012 Powwow: Preserving Tradition and Promoting Cultural Exchange By Sienna C. White For this article, Sienna White, 2012 summer intern at the Center of […]