Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615351719 ISBN 13: 9780615351711

Publisher: Nelson Gallery Foundation, 2010

Synopsis

American artist Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874) joined Sir William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish nobleman and adventurer, to chronicle a journey in 1837 to the Rocky Mountains to attend an annual gathering of fur traders. Miller became the first, and perhaps only, artist to paint the legendary fur trade from firsthand knowledge. Thereafter, Miller based his art on the rich experiences from that trip.

Romancing the West presents thirty captivating works on paper, spanning the subjects and techniques that the artist developed over more than thirty years. Mainly studio works in various stages of completion and in a sometimes unorthodox fusion of media, they provide a window onto not only how Miller worked, but how he envisioned the American West.

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Romancing the West presents thirty captivating works on paper spanning the subjects and techniques that Alfred Jacob Miller developed over more than thirty years.

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Romancing the West presents thirty captivating works on paper spanning the subjects and techniques that the artist developed over more than thirty years. Mainly studio works in various stages of completion and in a sometimes unorthodox fusion of media, they provide a window onto not only how Alfred Jacob Miller worked, but how he envisioned the American West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nelson Gallery Foundation
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0615351719
• ISBN 13: 9780615351711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Conrads Margaret C.