Painting the West: A History of American Artists Jim Turner
Before the golden age of Hollywood westerns, our view of the frontier was shaped not by a silver screen, but by the canvas. This survey of Western artists presents more than two dozen artists. Starting with George Catlin we’ll experience the Grand Canyon paintings of Thomas Moran before moving on to classic Cowboy artists Frederick Remington and Charles Russell. In the early 20th century Kate Cory painted and photographed the Hopi Indians while Maynard Dixon and Georgia O’Keeff e brought a modern look to Western art. In the following decades Hopi muralist Fred Kabotie, Carl Oscar Borg, and Gunnar Widforss worked in the Grand Canyon. The show finishes with cowboy artists Joe Becker and Ed Mell and includes the work of former Navajo Code Talker, Carl Gorman.
