Old World, New World

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Old World, New World

• The Encounter of Cultures on
• The American Frontier

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Augustin Dupré, The Diplomatic Medal (United
States), 1790, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson
during the Presidency of George Washington
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America, anonymous engraving from The Four
Continents, 1804
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John Vanderlyn (1775-1852), The Death of Jane
McCrea, 1804, oil on canvas, 82.5 x 67.3 cm,
Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum
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Emmanuel Leutze, Study for Westward the Course of
Empire Takes Its Way (Westward Ho!), 1861, oil on
canvas, 33 x 43 in. Medallion portraits are of
Daniel Boone (left) and William Clark (right).
How is Clark dressed?
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Charles Bird King, Young Omahaw, War Eagle,
Little Missouri, and Pawnees, 1822, oil on
canvas, 36x28 in
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George Catlin, The Last Race, Part of Okipa
Ceremony (Mandan), 1832, oil on canvas, 23x28in
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George Catlin, ''The author painting a chief, at
the base of the rocky mountains.'' Frontispiece
to Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and
Condition of the North American Indians,
1841(right) George Catlin, Mandan Chief Four
Bears, 1832
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George Catlin, Catlin Painting the Portrait of
Mah-To-Toh-Pa Mandan, oil on board, 1857-69
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(left) George Catlin, Clermont, First Chief of
the Tribe (Osage), 1834, oil on canvas, 29 x
24in(right) Thomas Easterly (US, 1809-1882)
Keokuk, or the Watchful Fox, 1847, Daguerreotype
Compare the viewers experience of these two
works. Why?
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Frederic S. Remington (US, 18611909), A Dash
for the Timber, 1889, oil on canvas, Amon Carter
Museum, Fort Worth, TexasArtists were THE
propagandists of frontier mythologies. From
Remingtons images followed Hollywood Westerns.
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Compare a Frank Leslies Popular Monthly
illustration of a peace treaty signing with a
representation of the same event (from memory) by
Howling Wolf, a Cheyenne warrior imprisoned at
Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida.
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1875 72 Southern Plains chiefs and warriors were
shackled and taken by wagon train, rail, and
steamboat through St. Louis, Missouri, Nashville
and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia, and
Jacksonville, Florida before arriving in St.
Augustine, the location of Fort Marion where they
were imprisoned for three years.
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Making Medicine, Cheyenne, Inspection of Indian
Prisoners, Fort Marion, Fla., 1876-77, pencil and
colored pencil, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Collection
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
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COHOE, Fort Marion Prisoners Dancing for
Tourists, 1875-77, graphite and colored pencil on
paper, private collection
More Fort Marion art http//www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/k
iowa/ft_marion.htm
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Wo-Haw, Reading Class at Fort Marion, 1875-7,
pencil and crayon on paper, 8¼ x 11½ in
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Wohow, Kiowa prisoner, Kiowa Portraits, 1877,
pencil and crayon, 8¾ x 11¼ in. Collection
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston, Class in American
History, 1899-1900, platinum print, 7.5 x 9.5 in