Fremont Tribune

Art exhibit focuses on American Frontier

Visitors to Joslyn Art Museum’s latest exhibition will be presented with both an art and history lesson. The focus of the exhibition is the exploration and settlement of the western frontier as ...
University of Wyoming

The Modern West: The American Landscape after the Frontier

American Modernism is usually thought of as limited to New York City in the decades following the turn of the 20 th century. The towering skyscrapers and heavy machinery dominated iconography of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans’ Understanding of the Wilderness

Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries History of Now Amanda Bellows - Author, The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions ...
insider.si.edu

Once upon a time... : the western : a new frontier in art and film / edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais ; Thomas Brent Smith

Exhibition hosted by: Denver Art Museum, May 27 to September 10, 2017 and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, October 14, 2017 to January 28, 2018. "Once upon a time... : the Western : a new frontier in ...
The New York Times

Homeland Security’s Embrace of Art Reopens an Old Debate

Showcasing “American Progress,” John Gast’s tableau of Manifest Destiny, is of a piece with the administration’s desire for a more traditional view of American history. By Sam Roberts John Gast’s ...
The News Leader

Map exhibit at Frontier Culture Museum focuses on early American immigrants

STAUNTON — Scott Ballin is telling a story, at least in part, through maps. An avid collector of maps, Ballin's latest exhibit, "Early American Immigrants – 1600-1800: The Shaping of a Future Nation," ...