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


Bodmer Herd of Bison Lithograph

Karl Bodmer, Herd of Bison, lithograph, c. 1832
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis
The low of herds
Blends with the rustling of the heavy grain
Over the dark-brown furrows. All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by,
and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.

William Cullen Bryant The Prairies, 1833.

 Berninghaus Pueblo Indians Oil on Canvas

Oscar Berninghaus, Pueblo Indians, oil on canvas, 1920.
Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

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