Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage
Hardcover
1990 · Lincoln, Nebraska
by Dippie, Brian W.
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Hardcover. VG/VG-, light wear and rips to spine area of dust jacket.. Black cloth-bound hardcover with gold lettering on spine. Beige dust-jacket with black illustration and white lettering. xx, 553 pp. Maps, BW illustrations. Catlin and His Contemporaries examines how the preeminent painter of western Indians before the Civil War went about the business of making a living from his work. Catlin shared with such artists as Seth Eastman and John Mix Stanley a desire to preserve a visual record of a race seen as doomed and competed with them for federal assistance. In a young republic with little institutional and governmental support available, painters, writers, and scholars became rivals and sometimes bitter adversaries. -Amazon. (Inventory #: 162790)