Born in Reisbach, Switzerland, Karl Bodmer is best known for the watercolors he did on on a five-thousand mile trip up the Missouri River in 1833 and 1834 when he accompanied the German prince... Read full biography
Born in Reisbach, Switzerland, Karl Bodmer is best known for the watercolors he did on on a five-thousand mile trip up the Missouri River in 1833 and 1834 when he accompanied the German prince Maximilian on an exploratory trip of the Far West. Maximilian, Prince of Wied, was a natural historian by... Read full biography
Born in Reisbach, Switzerland, Karl Bodmer is best known for the watercolors he did on on a five-thousand mile trip up the Missouri River in 1833 and 1834 when he accompanied the German prince Maximilian on an exploratory trip of the Far West. Maximilian, Prince of Wied, was a natural historian by avocation, and had come to America to study the unique features of the land and the people. On this trip, Bodmer painted numerous Indian subjects and river scenes, which Maximilian published as... Read full biography
Born in Reisbach, Switzerland, Karl Bodmer is best known for the watercolors he did on on a five-thousand mile trip up the Missouri River in 1833 and 1834 when he accompanied the German prince Maximilian on an exploratory trip of the Far West. Maximilian, Prince of Wied, was a natural historian by avocation, and had come to America to study the unique features of the land and the people. On this trip, Bodmer painted numerous Indian subjects and river scenes, which Maximilian published as engravings and aquatints along with his own observations in a book titled "Travels in the Interior of North America". His early training was in Paris, and in 1847, he moved to Germany where he painted the lush woods. In 1849, he painted with Francois... Read full biography
Born in Reisbach, Switzerland, Karl Bodmer is best known for the watercolors he did on on a five-thousand mile trip up the Missouri River in 1833 and 1834 when he accompanied the German prince Maximilian on an exploratory trip of the Far West. Maximilian, Prince of Wied, was a natural historian by avocation, and had come to America to study the unique features of the land and the people. On this trip, Bodmer painted numerous Indian subjects and river scenes, which Maximilian published as engravings and aquatints along with his own observations in a book titled "Travels in the Interior of North America". His early training was in Paris, and in 1847, he moved to Germany where he painted the lush woods. In 1849, he painted with Francois Millet and others at Barbizon, a small town in France, and his forest interiors won recognition in Paris Salon exhibitions. Source:. Matthew... Read full biography
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About Karl Bodmer: Books
Books & Publications (97)
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Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service)
2016
Bacharach, Joan (General Editor)
160 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
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes Works on Paper
2000
Vose, Marcia L , editor
29 pages (color)
Charlie Russell Roundup
1999
Dippie, Brian W
328 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Whitney Gallery of American Art
1997
Boehme, Sarah E
78 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Native Americans: A Portrait: The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Boderm
1997
Moore, Robert J
279 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
Karl Bodmer's Eastern Views: A Journey in North America
1996
Gallagher, Marsha; John Sears
65 pages
Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Kinsey, Joni
256 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
Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75
1995
Novak, Barbara
329 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)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
American Icons
1992
Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor)
390 pages
Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West
1992
Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon
217 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)
Myth of the West (Exhibition Henry Art Gallery, Seattle) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bruce, Chris
192 pages (color)
Catlin and His Contemporaries The Politics of Patronage
1990
Dippie, Brian W
438 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Cornucopia: Treasures from the Winterthur Library
1990
Martinez, Katherine (Editor)
103 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)
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings
1988
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
1,160 pages (color)
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)
Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West
1988
McCracken, Harold
232 pages
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography Volume One (A-F)
1988
Thrapp, Dan L.
524 pages
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
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)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Karl Bodmer's America
1984
Goetzmann, Wm; William Orr
376 pages
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 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)
The Rocky Mountains Vision for Artists in the 19th Cen
1983
Trenton, Patricia/P Hassrick
418 pages (color)
Artists of the Old West
1982
Ewers, John C
240 pages (color)
Legacy of the West
1982
Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher
157 pages (color)
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
The West as Romantic Horizon
1981
Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies)
128 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 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
Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875
1980
Novak, Barbara
323 pages (color)
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)
Cities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning
1979
Reps, John W
827 pages (color)
The Lure of the Great West
1978
Getlein, Frank
352 pages (color)
A Survey of Nebraska Art Works Drawn from the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Hoffman, Harry H.; Gary Zaruba
20 pages
American Realism
1978
Mathey, Francois
192 pages
Pictures from an Expedition Early Views of the American West (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Sandweiss, Martha A
64 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)
Mirages of Memory (Vol 1) 200 Years of Indiana Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Indianapolis Museum of Art
142 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)
Frontier America/The Far West (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
232 pages (color)
American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro)
64 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
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)
The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians
1972
Horan, James D
373 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 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 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
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
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Pioneer Painters of Indiana
1954
Peat, Wilbur D
254 pages
Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers
1954
Rathbone, Perry T (editor)
280 pages (color)
Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900
1953
Taft, Robert
400 pages
Portrait of the Old West
1952
McCracken, Harold
216 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index