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The Painted West: an archive with a point of view
A free public-domain archive of 19th-century art of the American West, with works, artist biographies, timelines, and subject guides.
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- Readers exploring 19th-century American art and its history
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- Its introduction treats “Art of the American West” as a convenient label, not a school with a manifesto, and asks who had authority to depict the region.
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The collection is arranged for browsing by year and subject, with separate paths into biographies, style and methods, influence, and a timeline. Its examples connect paintings to their circumstances: Lander’s Peak is linked to sketches from Frederick W. Lander’s 1859 survey party, while The Last of the Buffalo is described as assembling a hunt from earlier western-trip sketches. The homepage names three museum sources for the public-domain works.
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