19th-21st Century Western Genre Art
Including Cowboy Art and Lore of the Historic West
Resource Library articles and essays from 2010 to present
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "19th-21st Century Western Genre Art Including Cowboy Art and Lore of the Historic West." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date.
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(above: Frederic Remington, On the Southern Plains, 1907, Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 51 1/8in. (76.5 x 129.9cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1911)
12 Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art from 2010 to 2016:
Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date.
The Western Hero in Print; essay by Christine C. Brindza (1/28/16)
Western Heroes of Pulp Fiction: Dime Novel to Pop Culture (11/5/15)
"One of the Bunkhouse Boys: Duane Bryers and His Studio" by Christine C. Brindza (10/1/14)
Go West! Art of the American Frontier; article by Mindy N. Besaw and Stephanie Mayer Heydt (12/9/13)
Rob Akey: Observation, Memory and Invention: Western Art and Imagery Reconsidered (10/22/12)
Go West! Representations of the American Frontier (3/14/12)
Howard Terpning: Tribute to the Plains People (1/18/12)
Visions of the American West: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (11/22/11)
Western American Art South of the Sweet Tea Line III; essay by Jeff Donaldson (11/8/11)
Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection (10/16/10)
(above: James Walker, Cowboys Roping a Bear, c. 1877, oil on canvas, 29.31 x 49.31 inches, Denver Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Argosy All-Story Weekly
Magazine Cover (20 Dec 1924). Source: http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_3.html. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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