Art of the gold rush:
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1. Verfasser: Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press ©1998
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Beschreibung:Catalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Calif., Jan. 24-May 31, 1998; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., June 20-Sept. 13, 1998; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 1998- Mar. 7, 1999
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139) and index
The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State during the latter nineteenth century and documents the dramatic impact of the Gold Rush on the American imagination. Among the throngs of gold-seekers in California were artists, many self-taught, others formally trained, and their arrival produced an outpouring of artistic works
Foreword - Stephen C. McGough and Dennis M. Power -- - Acknowledgments - Harvey L. Jones, Janice T. Driesbach and Katherine C. Holland -- - Map of the gold country -- - Introduction - The lure of gold - Janice T. Driesbach -- - First in the field: Thomas A. Ayres and E. Hall Martin - Janice T. Driesbach and Harvey L. Jones -- - Scenes of mining life: John Prendergast, Augusto Ferran, William Mcilvaine, W. Taber, William Birch Mcmurtrie, Harrison Eastman, Samuel Stillman Osgood, A.G., John Henry Dunnel, Washington F. Friend, John Woodhouse Audubon, Francis Samuel Marryat, and E. Godchaux - Janice T. Driesbach -- - Portrait painter to the elite: William Smith Jewett - Janice T. Driesbach -- - The Hessian party: Charles Christian Nahl, Arthur Nahl, and August Wenderoth - Harvey L. Jones -- - Souvenirs of the mother lode: Ernest Narjot and George Henry Burgess - Harvey L. Jones -- - Mining the picturesque: A.D.O. Browere - Janice T. Driesbach
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 148 pages)
ISBN:0520214315
0520214323
0520935152
0585176485
9780520214316
9780520214323
9780520935150
9780585176482

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