Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2016 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West “Cowboys & Indians” poster Buffalo Bill’s Wild West effectively marketed its appearances through bright, colorful posters depicting dramatic, exciting adventures that occurred in the American West. This early poster, circa 1887, depicts a rare encounter between cowboys and Indians. In 1866, Nelson […]
Originally published in Points West in Fall 1996 Joseph Henry Sharp’s Monotypes: On the Cutting Edge Marie Watkins, Guest Author In the late nineteenth century American artists rediscovered the monotype process. Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 – 1953) of Cincinnati was on the cutting edge of this latest artistic development along with his eastern modernist colleagues. […]
The Plains Indian Museum is loaning three unique and significant examples from our collections to a new exhibition on the art of Plains Native people – The Plains Indians. This exhibition will originate in Paris at the Musée du quai Branly and travel to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the Metropolitan Museum of […]