This book reveals the fact-within-the-fiction of Bierstadt's spectacular, eight-foot-wide view of Puget Sound. It follows his travels around the Washington Territory in 1863, travels that were far more extensive than previously known. It identifies the artist's source material in Northwest Coast native artifacts, early historical accounts of the region, and the sketches he made on the Columbia River and Washington and Vancouver Island coasts. It compels us to reconsider the function of the painting--to see it not as a landscape, but as a historical work, a narrative of an ancient maritime people, and a rumination, on the ages-old mountains, basaltic rocks, dense woods, glacial rivers, and surf-pounded shores that have given this region its look and also shaped its culture.
Patricia Junker is the Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum.
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This book reveals the fact-within-the-fiction of Bierstadt's spectacular, eight-foot-wide view of Puget Sound. It follows his travels around the Washington Territory in 1863, travels that were far more extensive than previously known. It identifies the artist's source material in Northwest Coast native artifacts, early historical accounts of the region, and the sketches he made on the Columbia River and Washington and Vancouver Island coasts. It compels us to reconsider the function of the painting--to see it not as a landscape, but as a historical work, a narrative of an ancient maritime people, and a rumination, on the ages-old mountains, basaltic rocks, dense woods, glacial rivers, and surf-pounded shores that have given this region its look and also shaped its culture.
Patricia Junker is the Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum.
Imprint | University of Washington Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | May 2011 |
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First published | July 2011 |
Authors | Patricia A Junker |
Dimensions | 305 x 229 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 64 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-99124-5 |
Barcode | 9780295991245 |
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LSN | 0-295-99124-0 |