Museum curators often receive public inquiries, and sometimes an outside person can be very helpful to gaining better insight on a painting or object in the museum. For Karen McWhorter, […]
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On the heels of Lewis and Clark – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2009 On the heels of Lewis and Clark: Charles Fritz follows the inspiring visions of western artist-explorers By Christine C. BrindzaFormer Curatorial Assistant, Whitney […]
Bierstadt: George Catlin and the National Park Idea
When George Catlin traveled up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, he admired the Native American peoples of the Great Plains and observed the bison herds as one of their […]
Bierstadt: Forerunners to Bierstadt
Bierstadt’s painting The Last of the Buffalo served as a final, desperate call to save a species from near-certain annihilation. But he was not the first—nor the last—to use an […]
Treasures from Our West: “Dear Mr. Catlin…I Love You” by Paul Dyck
Originally published in Points West in Fall 2010 Paul Dyck pays tribute to his idol, George Catlin, one of the first to document the Plains Indians in art. In this […]
Catlin Showed Us – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2000 Catlin Showed Us By Edith JacobsonFormer Intern, Whitney Western Art Museum By the 1830s America was beginning what is now known as “The Era of Westward […]