Lewis & Clark Site Map

"Western Art Gallery" Project

I. Comprehensive Books on Western Art

• Hassrick, Peter. The Way West: Art of Frontier America. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1977.
• Library of Fine Art. Artists of the American West. Seacaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1980.
• Rossi, Paul A. and Hunt, David. The Art of the Old West. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

• http://monet.unk.edu/mona/artexplr/peale/peale.html
• Benson, Maxine, ed. From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains: Major Stephen Long's Expedition, 1819-1820. Contains the art of Peale and Seymour who were the first artists to accompany an American expedition.
  Karl Bodmer
• http://monet.unk.edu/mona/artexplr/bodmer/bodmer.html
• http://www.joslyn.org/permcol/west/pages/bodmer2.html
• Gallagher, Marsha V. and Hunt, David C. Karl Bodmer's America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 1984.
• CD ROM: Bodmer's America. Pound Ridge, NY: Alecto Historical Editions, 2000.

III. Camera Obscura/Pin-hole Camera

• http://brightbytes.com/cosite/collection3.html
• http://brightbytes.com/cosite/sanfran.html
• http://www.grand-illusions.com/vermeer/vermeer1.htm

"Thinking Like An Artist" Activity

I. Charles M. Russell

General Information

• http://www.cmrussell.org/nav6.html
• http://www.cmrussell.org/nav3.html

Russell's painting, Lewis and Clark Meeting the Indians at Ross' Hole

• http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/bitterroot/heritage/landc/lewis_and_clark.htm
• http://www.fidnet.com/~rah/artists.htm#russell
• http://www.lewis-clark.org/russell.htm
• Burnham, Patricia M. "Lewis and Clark at Ross's Hole: The Story Behind Charles M. Russell's 1912 Painting, One of the Great Works of Western American Art." We Proceeded On, August, 2000, pp. 18-24. This source includes the background story and a full-color copy of Russell's painting, Lewis and Clark Meeting the Indians at Ross' Hole.
• Dear, Elizabeth A. The Grand Expedition of Lewis & Clark as Seen by C. M. Russell. Great Falls, MT: C. M. Russell Museum, 2000. This booklet presents the complete collection of Russell's paintings about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It also includes information about his life and work.

II. Eugene Daub Sculpture Sources

• http://www.kchistory.org/lewisandclark.htm

"Artistic License" Activity

I. Sacagawea

• http://www.umt.edu/partv/famus/paint/sacajawe.htm
• http://www.lewis-clark.org/SACAGAWEA/sac_hayn.htm
• http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sacajawea.html
• http://www.lewis-clark.org/SACAGAWEA/saca.htm

II. York

Betts, Robert B. In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark, Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1985.

Betts' meticulous research has been updated with new information in a re-release of this book, published in 2002.

Miscellaneous References

I. Lewis and Clark Journal Drawings

• Schmidt, Tom and Schmidt, Jeremy. The Saga of Lewis and Clark: Into the Uncharted West. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2001.
• Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. This is the companion volume to Ken Burns' documentary film about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It is filled with photographs, paintings, drawings, charts, maps, and much more.

II. Women Painters of the West

• Trenton, Patricia. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. University of California Press, 1995.