January
31
THE HIGH- GO WEST!
The dust of the Civil War had barely settled when Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, famously urged America’s youth to turn from the rubble and go west. America’s future was anchored in the frontier. Between 1800 and 1900, the nation more than tripled in physical size. With the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from the French in 1803, American land holdings doubled with the stroke of a pen. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, less than seven percent of the American population lived west of states that bordered the Atlantic Ocean; at the century’s end, those regions hosted more than fifty percent. Americans were going west.
Few aspects of American history have been more decisive in shaping this nation than the exploration and settling of the western frontier. This exhibition considers the evolving notion of the American West through more than 250 artworks and artifacts dating from 1830 to 1930, outlining a West of popular imagination that continues to inform American values of independence, innovation, and individualism today.
POSSE PHOTOS:
Go West!
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Days of Long Ago by Henry Farney 1903
Photographs by Edward S. Curtis
Dying Indian by Charles Cary Rumsey 1904
Paintings depicting Native American Life
Paintings depicting Native American Life
Painting depicting Native American Life
Paintings of Native Americans viewing their way of life
Buffalo Hunt by Charles Cary Rumsey 1912
Eagle Feather Bonnet ca.1890
Native American Clothing
Buffalo Skin Quilt
Native American Tunic
Native American Tunic
Native American Beaded Pieces
Native American Beaded Pieces
The Conquest of the Prairie by Irving Bacon 1908
Buffalo Bill Posters
Go West!
Remington Sculptures
Paintings from exhibition
The Buffalo
Paintings of wildlife of the West
Madonna of The Prairie 1921
Lexi, Layla and Lia viewing the Madonna of the Prairie
Photographs of The West
The Posse viewing photographs of The West
The Buffalo Hunt by Frederic Remington 1890
The Last of the Buffalo by Albert Bierstadt 1888
The Posse viewing The Last of the Buffalo
The Posse viewing a A Herd of Bison Crossing the Missouri River
Posse discussing the slaughter of the buffalo as a way to get rid of the Native Americans in The West
A Herd of Bison Crossing the Missouri River by William Jacob Hayes Sr. 1863
Geysers in Yellowstone by Albert Bierstadt 1881
Yellowstone Falls by Albert Bierstadt 1881
Golden Gate, Yellowstone National Park by Thomas Moran 1893
Painting of Yellowstone
Go West!
Western Landscape Paintings
Albert Bierstadt Painting
Albert Bierstadt Painting
The Posse admiring landscape paintings
Karen talking about a landscape painting
Plains Native American Bear Claw Necklace
Native American Portriats
Native American portrait
Native American photograph
Go West!
Northern Plains Indian Objects
Northern Plains Indian Moccasins, Rattle and Rawhide Bag
Northern Plains Indian Beaded Baby Carrier
Northern Plains Indian Baby Carrier
Northern Plains Beaded Indian Tunic
Northern Plains Indian Headdress
Northern Plains Indian Tunic
Northern Plains Indian Shield and Cover ca. 1860
Laton Huffman Portrait of “Pretty Nose,” a Cheyenne Girl 1879
Laton Huffman Portrait of “Two Moon’s Children” 1879
“Cheyenne Annie” by Laton Huffman 1879
“Spotted Fawn,” Cheyenne Girl of 13 by Laton Huffman 1890
“High Bear,” Oglala Sioux by Laton Huffman 1880
“White Hawk,” Cheyenne Brave by Laton Huffman 1879
Sioux Chief Hump and Wives by Laton Huffman ca. 1890
The Posse looking at Native American Portraits
Prairie Burial by William Ranney 1848
Go West!
Advice on the Prairie by William Ranney 1853
The Posse contemplating Advice on the Prairie
Karen telling The Posse about Advice on the Prairie
The Posse discussing Last of Their Race by John Mix Stanley
The Posse thinking about Last of Their Race by John Mix Stanley
The Posse discussing Last of Their Race by John Mix Stanley
The Posse viewing Indian Elopement by Alfred Miller
The Posse contemplating Indian Elopement by Alfred Miller
On the Warpath by Alfred Miller 1840 and In Pursuit by Carl Wimar ca 1850-1860
Last of Their Race by John Mix Stanley 1857
The Posse viewing Indian Elopement by Alfred Miller
Go West!
The Posse viewing the Native American Portraits
The Posse viewing The Native American Portraits
Go West!
Go West!
The Posse viewing the collection of Native American Chief Portraits by Henry
The Posse viewing The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Thomas Burnham ca. 1850
Go West! Exhibition
Discussing The Conquest of the Prairie by Irving Bacon
Viewing a closeup of The Conquest of the Prairie by Irving Bacon
Closeup of The Conquest of the Prairie by Irving Bacon
Closeup of The Conquest of the Prairie by Irving Bacon
Indian Warrior by Alexander Proctor 1900-1902
KIDS OPERA & ART POSSE 
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