Alfred Jacob Miller became the first American artist of consequence to paint the Rocky Mountains and was the only artist to chronicle figures of the legendary fur trade during its height. Although he... Read full biography
Alfred Jacob Miller became the first American artist of consequence to paint the Rocky Mountains and was the only artist to chronicle figures of the legendary fur trade during its height. Although he portrayed Indian subjects, he was not especially interesting in realistic depictions but... Read full biography
Alfred Jacob Miller became the first American artist of consequence to paint the Rocky Mountains and was the only artist to chronicle figures of the legendary fur trade during its height. Although he portrayed Indian subjects, he was not especially interesting in realistic depictions but romanticized his subjects, comparing the Indians of the West to Greek sculpture figures. He was encouraged to draw by his parents, and had local training in Baltimore and studied portraiture in Philadelphia... Read full biography
Alfred Jacob Miller became the first American artist of consequence to paint the Rocky Mountains and was the only artist to chronicle figures of the legendary fur trade during its height. Although he portrayed Indian subjects, he was not especially interesting in realistic depictions but romanticized his subjects, comparing the Indians of the West to Greek sculpture figures. He was encouraged to draw by his parents, and had local training in Baltimore and studied portraiture in Philadelphia from 1831 to 1832 with Thomas Sully. He studied in France from 1833 to 1834 and Italy at the English Life School in Rome. Returning to Baltimore, he opened a studio, but it was not successful. In 1836, he established a studio in New Orleans where he met... Read full biography
Alfred Jacob Miller became the first American artist of consequence to paint the Rocky Mountains and was the only artist to chronicle figures of the legendary fur trade during its height. Although he portrayed Indian subjects, he was not especially interesting in realistic depictions but romanticized his subjects, comparing the Indians of the West to Greek sculpture figures. He was encouraged to draw by his parents, and had local training in Baltimore and studied portraiture in Philadelphia from 1831 to 1832 with Thomas Sully. He studied in France from 1833 to 1834 and Italy at the English Life School in Rome. Returning to Baltimore, he opened a studio, but it was not successful. In 1836, he established a studio in New Orleans where he met Captain William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish aristocrat and British Army officer, who engaged Miller to a... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (169)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016
Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage
312 pages (color)
Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013
2014
Fahlman, Betsy (Editor)
217 pages (color)
Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper
2003
Tierney, Curtis (editor)
71 pages (color)
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park
2002
Hassrick, Peter H
248 pages (color)
How to Draw Wyoming's Sight and Symbols
2002
Mis, M.S.
0 pages (color)
Recounting the Old West: Gallery Selections-Thomas Nygard Gallery
2000
Tierney, Curtis (Editor)
44 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary
78 pages (color)
Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Tyler, Ron (essay)
192 pages (color)
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
Selections from Gertrude Vandeveer Spratlen Collection
1997
Schlier, Deborah
63 pages (color)
Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Kinsey, Joni
256 pages (color)
At Beck and Call: Domestic Servants In 19th Century Painting
1996
O'Leary, Elizabeth L
305 pages (color)
Western Art Masterpieces
1996
Watkins, T H/Joan P Watkins
119 pages (color)
The Art of the Horse
1995
Fairley, John
192 pages (color)
The Painted Voyage Art, Travel and Exploration 1564-1875
1995
Jacobs, Michael
156 pages (color)
An Illustrated History: Nebraska
1995
Luebke, Frederick C.
406 pages
Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony
1994
Schimmel, Julie
352 pages (color)
Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress
1994
Tyler, Ron
197 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen
266 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Landscapes of the West (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Stragnell, Robert
60 pages
Treasures From Our West
1992
Curators, Buffalo Bill Center
57 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West
1992
Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon
217 pages (color)
The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth
56 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
Philbrook Museum of Art Handbook to the Collections
1991
Philbrook Museum of Art
250 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Western American Art
1991
Sweeney, J Gray
239 pages (color)
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 pages (color)
Rendezvous to Roundup: The First 100 Years of Wyoming Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Boehme, Sarah E
49 pages (color)
Myth of the West (Exhibition Henry Art Gallery, Seattle) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bruce, Chris
192 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists
1990
Tyler, Ron
208 pages (color)
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Frontier America: Art From Buffalo Bill Historical Center
1988
Fees, Paul; Sarah E Boehme
128 pages (color)
The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Gerald Peters Gallery
93 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West
1988
McCracken, Harold
232 pages
Collecting the West The C R Smith Collection of Western American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Saunders, Richard H
211 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: Volume Two (G-0)
1988
Thrapp, Dan
573 pages
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger
40 pages (color)
American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints
1987
Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all
192 pages (color)
Exploring the West
1987
Viola, Herman J; William H. Goetzmann (Intro)
256 pages (color)
America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Adams, Celeste Marie
130 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum
1986
Muhlert, Jan K (intro)
128 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all
248 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History
1983
Davidson, Marshall
256 pages (color)
Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art
1983
Foxley, William
200 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
The Rocky Mountains Vision for Artists in the 19th Cen
1983
Trenton, Patricia/P Hassrick
418 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Artists of the Old West
1982
Ewers, John C
240 pages (color)
How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier
1982
Glanz, Dawn
205 pages
Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
106 pages (color)
Legacy of the West
1982
Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher
157 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Alfred Jacob Miller Artist on the Oregon Trail (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Tyler, Ron
480 pages (color)
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection
1981
Eiteljorg, Harrison
172 pages (color)
The West as Romantic Horizon
1981
Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies)
128 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers
196 pages (color)
Denver Art Museum Major Works in the Collection
1981
Ritchie, Margaret
304 pages (color)
Angels and Urchins Images of Children at the Joslyn
1981
Sturgis, Hollister
88 pages (color)
A Brush With the West
1980
Burk, Dale; Vivian Paladin (Intro)
135 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Ballinger, James K
182 pages (color)
Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection
1979
Broder, Patricia Janis
155 pages (color)
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
Fort Laramie ofAlfred Jacob Miller A Catalogue of All the Known Illustrations
1979
Warner, Robert Combs
213 pages
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
Pictures from an Expedition Early Views of the American West (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Sandweiss, Martha A
64 pages (color)
Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection
1978
Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent
244 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
The Bison in Art A Graphic Chronicle of the Ameican Bison (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barsness, Larry
142 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The Way West Art of Frontier America
1977
Hassrick, Peter H
240 pages (color)
American Watercolor Painting
1977
Hoopes, Donelson F
208 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
The American West Selections/Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Ballinger, James K
24 pages (color)
Fifty Great Western Illustrators A Bibliographic Checklist
1975
Dykes, Jeff
456 pages (color)
Frontier America/The Far West (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
232 pages (color)
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
The Westerners
1974
Brown, Dee
288 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro)
64 pages (color)
The Renaisance of Western Art
1974
Ward, Johanna Walsh
144 pages (color)
The West Remembered (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Baird, Joseph Armstrong
88 pages (color)
Braves and Buffalo Plains Indian Life in 1837
1973
Bell, Michael (intro)
176 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
The American Frontier Images and Myths (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hills, Patricia
64 pages
Art of the West (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Maxwell Galleries
48 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Curry, Larry
198 pages (color)
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (Volumes I and II)
1972
Gussow, Alan
160 pages (color)
Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
National Parks and the American Landscape
1972
Taylor, Joshua
141 pages (color)
Harmsen's Western Americana
1971
Harmsen, Dorothy
212 pages (color)
The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute
1971
Rossi, Paul/David Hunt
335 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes
1969
Canaday, John
1,520 pages (color)
American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection
1969
Curator
127 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Nebraska Art Today A Centenial Invitational Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Nebraska Centennial Commission
84 pages
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
Five Artists of the Old West
1965
Hollman, Clide
128 pages
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
La Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento
1956
Baur, John I H
58 pages
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of)
1956
McCracken, Harold
32 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers
1954
Rathbone, Perry T (editor)
280 pages (color)
American Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements
1953
Baur, John I H
60 pages
Portrait of the Old West
1952
McCracken, Harold
216 pages (color)
The West of Alfred Jacob Miller
1951
Ross, Marvin C
454 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 pages
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Baltimore Museum of Art
78 pages
The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Sweet, Frederick A
123 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index