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The Viking Press in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, Published 1972. Paperback, 198 pp.; 22 x 24 cm (oblong); 133 plates, some in color; double-page reproduction of Colton's 1874 map of the states and territories west of the Mississippi. Foreword by Archibald Hanna.
In Good condition. Illustrated paper covers reproducing Walter Shirlaw's Buffalo Hunt, cream lettering on front cover and spine; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf and edge wear with some scuffing, and slight peeling at corner tips. Binding tight. Mild dampstaining to bottom edge of text block near gutter, extending into lower half inch of margins on most pages. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Laid in: American Association of Museums benefit folder (single sheet folded to four pages). Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the St. Louis Art Museum in 1972, organized as a benefit for the American Association of Museums. Curry's introduction surveys nineteenth-century painting of the trans-Mississippi West, and illustrated chronologies give the careers of the artists, among them Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller, Bierstadt, Moran, Remington and Russell. Pacific Northwest subjects include James Madison Alden's 1857 watercolors of the Columbia River and British Columbia. Check list of works with media, dimensions and lenders. The laid-in benefit folder lists the AAM officers and honorary councilors (among them Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Aristotle Onassis), and the benefit committee, patrons and sponsors. Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword: A West for Americans (Archibald Hanna); Introduction: Painters from Catlin to Russell (Larry Curry); Chronologies of the Artists; Plates; Check List; Bibliography; Artists Bibliographies.