Collecting The West: The C. R. Smith Collection of Western American Art
Hardcover
1988 · Austin, Tex
by Saunders, Richard H.
Austin, Tex: University of Texas Press, 1988. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Crimson cloth, cream & illus. dust jacket, 212 pp. 74 color, 76 bw plates. A terrific source of color plates, and an interesting essay on the formation of a collection. Short, well illustrated essays chronologically explore different periods of western art from the period of exploration on up through the 1940s. This particular collection is housed at the University of Texas Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery. (Inventory #: 3381)