"The fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature" : Robert Walter Weir and The landing of Henry Hudson -- Reclamation of a past made useable : The La salle series of George Catlin (1847-1848) -- Painting contact in an age of anxiety : the reconstruction-era historical landscapes of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt -- Finding room for all : Charles M. Russell's Lewis and Clark meeting Indians at Ross' hole (1912)
Summary
In Framing First Contact author Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about the process of constructing national myths--and how those myths acquired different meanings at different points in our nation's history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 09, 2020)
