Karen Quinn, Senior Historian/Curator, Art and Culture will present a brief 20 minute tour of the exhibition looking at how American painters and sculptors of the 19th and 20th centuries from Albert Bierstadt to Georgia O’Keeffe interpreted the West from myth to reality.
Lunch Bite: A Midday Sample of Imaging the American West: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
12:00 PM
West Gallery
Free
Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860-1950), Buffalo, cast 1913 or after, bronze, 13 ½ x 19 x 9 ¾ in. (34.3 x 48.3 x 24.8 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Charles Schreyvogel (1861-1912), My Bunkie 1899, oil on canvas, 25 3/16 x 34 in. (64 x 86.4 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of friends of the artist, by subscription, 1912 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cyrus Dallin (1861-1944), Appeal to the Great Spirit 1913; cast ca. 1916, 21 3/8 x 14 ½ x 21 ¾ in. (54.3 x 36.8 x 55.2 cm), bronze, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and Jonathan L. Cohen and Allison B. Morrow Gift, 2013 Image
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Paul Manship (1885-1966),
Indian Hunter and His Dog
1926, bronze,
21 ½ x 23 ½ x 8 1/8 in.
(54.6 x 59.7 x 20.6 cm),
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Thomas Cochrane, 1929
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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