PrintViews and Visions of the American West on display in Ft. Worth
Yellow Magpie, Arapahoe
Leonard Baskin, color lithograph, 1973.
People once ventured West to realize their dreams, and the mythical lure of the region has never fully dislodged from the public imagination. A place where myth and reality have always coexisted, the American West has produced a wide variety of differing perspectives and interpretations across generations.
Since Americans first began moving to the region, artists have re-created and preserved the Western frontier according to the way in which they have been personally affected by its grand allure. “Some American artists viewed the West in its mythic enlargement, while others attempted to infuse their mythic visions with a harsher reality,” explains Rick Stewart, senior curator of Western paintings and sculpture for the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and curator of the Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820 – 1970 exhibition.
On view through January 10, the exhibition celebrates the diverse and often contradictory views and visions of the American West represented in Western art. Featuring a wide variety of artwork created over the past two centuries, the show consists of around 120 prints and illustrated books from the museum’sâ¨permanent collection. Included in the exhibition are works by renowned artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Leonard Baskin, whose 1973 color lithograph Yellow Magpie, Arapahoe is shown.
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