Author: Publisher:
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Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
American Indian Art Magazine
Author: American Indian Painters
Author: Jeanne Snodgrass KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists [electronic Resource]
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Scope includes artists who were born, or artistically active, in Kansas.
Arts Digest
Author: Pueblo Horizons
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Art Digest
Author: The Cultures of Native North Americans
Author: Christian F. FeestPublisher: Konemann
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Damming Grand Canyon
Author: Diane E BoyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination. Also by Robert Webb: Lee's Ferry
Indian Affairs
Author: United StatesPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
John Steuart Curry
Author: Frank N. Owings, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890751210
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Artist John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) was raised on a farm in Northeast Kansas and is best known for his depictions of the Midwest. Another region revealed in his art, the American West, has always deserved more attention. Experiences on a family-owned ranch in Arizona nurtured Curry's love of the Western landscape. During the 1920s the artist illustrated serialized magazine stories that took readers on Wild West adventures. In later years he interpreted the history of Westward expansion in murals for federal buildings and classic novels such as James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie. Through more than forty works, including paintings and magazine illustrations, this exhibition catalogue explores the motives for Curry's fascination with the region and the dialogue between his depictions of a real and imagined American West. Co-curated by independent scholar Frank N. Owings Jr. and Curator Elizabeth G. Seaton of Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within is accompanied by an introduction by William H. Truettner, former Smithsonian American Art Museum curator and editor and author of The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820 - 1920.