Mindy N. Besaw Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum

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The End of the Frontier and the Birth of Nostalgia: Art of the Old West after 1900 Mindy N. Besaw Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Harper’s Weekly, January 24, 1891 Illustration and article, “The Sioux Outbreak in South Dakota,” by Frederic Remington Thomas Moran, Chicago World’s Fair, 1894 (Brooklyn Museum) Frederic Remington, What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost, 1895 (Yale University Art Gallery)

World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, 1893 (right) Frederick Jackson Turner

“What has become of the Wild and Woolly West “What has become of the Wild and Woolly West?” Chicago Daily Tribune, January 25, 1903

James Earle Fraser, End of the Trail, modeled ca. 1918-1923 Charles M. Russell, Waiting for a Chinook, ca. 1903

Frontier Heroes and the Romance of the West

Alexander Phimister Proctor, Indian Warrior, 1900-1902

Charles M. Russell, Indian Women Moving Camp, 1898 Hermon Atkins MacNeil, The Sun Vow, 1889 Charles M. Russell, Watching the Enemy, ca. 1918-1920

Chief Iron Tail, ca. 1902

Frederic Remington, Broncho Buster, 1895 Frederic Remington in his New Rochelle Studio, 1905

Frederic Remington, A Dash for the Timber, 1889 (Amon Carter Museum) Frederic Remington, Fall of the Cowboy, 1895 (Amon Carter Museum)

Owen Wister, The Virginian (1902)

Charles M. Russell, Bronco Buster, 1919 Solon Borglum, One in a Thousand, 1906 Charles M. Russell, The Bucker and the Buckeroo, 1923-1924

Charles M. Russell, Self Portrait, 1900 Roping a Grizzly, 1903 Passing of the frontier and the end of an era --

Above the Sea of Round, Shiny Backs the Thin Loops Swirled and Shot into Volumes of Dust, 1904-1905 N.C. Wyeth, The Wild Spectacular Race for Dinner, 1904-1905

W.H.D. Koerner, Madonna of the Prairie, 1921

Frederic Remington, Radisson and Groseilliers, 1905

Charles Schreyvogel, The Last Drop, 1903 Frederic Remington, The Wounded Bunkie, 1896

Charles Schreyvogel, The Last Drop, 1903 Schreyvogel on his roof in Hoboken, 1903

Charles Schreyvogel, The Summit Springs Rescue-1869, 1908

Buffalo Bill and the Wild West Show

The Strobridge Lithograph Company, Col. W. F. Cody “Buffalo Bill,” ca Cabinet cards, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show

Rosa Bonheur, Col. William F. Cody, 1889 Courier Lithograph Company, Art Perpetuates Fame: Rosa Bonheur Painting Buffalo Bill, Paris, 1889

Irving R. Bacon, The Conquest of the Prairie, 1908

Frederic Remington, Buffalo Bill in the Limelight, ca. 1899

Remington, the Cowboy, and the Shaping of an Artistic Vision

Frederic Remington

John Henry Twachtman, Waterfall in Yellowstone, ca. 1895 Frederic Remington

Thomas Moran, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872 (housed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum) Thomas Moran, Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, Arizona), 1918

Frederic Remington, Stormy Morning in the Bad Lands, 1906 add Ghosts of the Past, ca. 1908 Frederic Remington, Untitled (Fall Landscape), ca. 1907-1908

Frederic Remington, The War Bridle, 1909

Frederic Remington, The War Bridle, 1909 Frederic Remington, Prospecting for Cattle Range, 1889

Wildlife and the Sporting Man

Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir, Glacier Point, 1903 Roosevelt, horseback, c. 1905

Carl Rungius, The Mountaineers, 1912; Mule Deer in the Badlands, 1914; Silver Tip Grizzly Bear, ca. 1923

A. Phimister Proctor, Alaska Brown Bear, ca. 1900 Albert Bierstadt, Buffalo Head, ca. 1879 A. Phimister Proctor, Stalking Panther, 1891-1892

Charles M. Russell, Buffalo Family, n.d. Charles M. Russell, Lunch Hour, n.d.

N.C. Wyeth, Hunters With Bear, ca. 1911

Mourning the Past: Symbolic Depictions of Native Americans Charles Cary Rumsey, Dying Indian, ca. 1904 James Earl Fraser, End of the Trail, ca. 1918-1923

George Catlin, Crow Chief, ca. 1850 John Mix Stanley, Last of Their Race, 1853 Charles M. Russell, Bringing Home the Spoils, 1909

Fraser, Buffalo Head Nickel, 1913 James Earl Fraser, End of the Trail, ca. 1918-1923

Henry Farny, Days of Long Ago, 1903 Joseph Henry Sharp, Dividing the Chief’s Property, ca. 1905

Edward Curtis, Upshaw-Apsaroke, 1905 Edward Curtis, Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926

Curtis from exhibition here

Charles M. Russell, Bringing Home the Spoils, 1909

Charles M. Russell, Where Great Herds Come to Drink, 1901 Charles M. Russell, His Heart Sleeps, 1911

A.D.M. Cooper, Viewing the Curios, 1909 A.D.M. Cooper, In the Studio, 1902

A.D.M. Cooper, Relics of the Past, before 1910

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