Wyoming Representational Art History
Resource Library essays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:
Rocky Mountain and Southwest Painting and Sculpture: 19th-21st Century
Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
National Museum of Wildlife Art
National Park Academy of the Arts
Other online sources:
TFAO's
Distinguished
Artists catalogue provides online
access to biographical information for artists associated with this state.
Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and
essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history
and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library
articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not
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Books:
Seeing Yellowstone in 1871: Earliest Descriptions &
Images from the Field, By Albert Charles Peale,
Marlene Deahl Merrill. Translated by Marlene Deahl 
Merrill.
Illustrated by Thomas Moran, William Henry Jackson. Contributor Albert Charles
Peale, Marlene Deahl Merrill. Published by U of Nebraska Press, 2005. ISBN
0803287879, 9780803287877. 85 pages. Google Books says: "In 1871 the
young mineralogist Albert Peale set out with the vaunted Hayden Expedition
to map and explore the Yellowstone Basin. Ferdinand Hayden asked Peale,
his former student, to write a series of letters to the Philadelphia Press
about the survey's work. Just as these letters, the first impressions of
Yellowstone sent back from the field, introduced nineteenth-century readers
to some of the most breathtaking wonders of the American West, they allow
readers today to rediscover one of the nation's most beloved and visited
natural areas as it was just five months before it became the world's first
national park. nbsp; Written by a scientist for the general reader, Peale's
letters convey the grandeur of Yellowstone with great clarity and immediacy,
even as they offer apt, detailed descriptions of the basin's geologic features,
from the geysers-Giant, Grotto, and Mud, among others-to the creeks and
rivers, craters and springs. Illustrating these descriptions are the earliest
artistic images of Yellowstone, also done during the expedition-watercolor
field sketches by Thomas Moran, photographs by William Henry Jackson, and
the now little-known works of the party's official artist, Henry Wood Elliott.
Ranging from dramatic panoramic landscapes to lighthearted sketches of the
expedition's more personal moments, these images combine with Peale's written
impressions to give readers a true and rare sense of what it was like for
these men to marvel at Yellowstone for the first time." (right:
book cover image courtesy of Google Books)
Drawn to Yellowstone: America's First National Park, by Peter H. Hassrick, Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 2002.
Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and
Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition, By Marlene
Merrill. Published by University of 
Nebraska
Press, 1999. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Sep 24,
2008. ISBN 0803231482, 9780803231481. 315 pages. Google Books says: "Here,
for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand
Hayden's historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana
Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition's findings quickly
led Congress to establish Yellowstone as the world's first national park.
In addition to its scientific discoveries, the expedition is famous for
producing the earliest on-site images of Yellowstone, by its photographer,
William Henry Jackson, and its guest artist, Thomas Moran. Marlene Deahl
Merrill has woven together a compelling daily narrative from the field writings
of three expedition members: unpublished journals kept by mineralogist Albert
Peale and geologist George Allen, periodic reports by Peale to his hometown
newspaper, and letters from Hayden to his friend and mentor Spencer Baird
at the Smithsonian Institution. Enriching this narrative are Jackson's photographs
of camp scenes and landscapes; rare panoramic drawings by the party's topographical
artist, Henry Elliott; maps; an introduction; and extensive annotations."
(right: book cover image courtesy of Google Books)
Rendezvous to Roundup: The First 100 Years of Art in Wyoming, By Sarah E. Boehme, Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Published 1992 by Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Painting, American / Wyoming/ Exhibitions. 49 pages. ISBN:0931618304. Catalogue for the exhibition held at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, May 25 through September 3, 1940.
One Hundred Years of Artist Activity in Wyoming, 1837-1937, By University of Wyoming, Wyoming University. Art Museum, Art Museum. Published by The Museum, 1976. 79 pages
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