Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
Collage of Artwork
Documenting Westward Expansion Link Revealing an Unseen Landscape Portraying the Native American


Citadel Rock lithograph

Karl Bodmer, Citadel Rock, lithograph, c. 1832
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis 		Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Thomas Cole, American painter, in Essay on American Scenery, 1835.

 Meramec Near Glenco Oil on Canvas

J. R. Meeker, Meramec Near Glenco, oil on canvas, 1877.
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis

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