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Seth Eastman

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Seth Eastman (1808 - 1875) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, Maine.  Seth Eastman is known for Genre-Indian, topography, portrait.

Born in Brunswick, Maine, Seth Eastman, who became Brigadier General Seth Eastman, was a mid-19th century painter, topographer and draftsman, whose name remains famous for his depictions of United States military posts, western landscapes, and Indian life.  Seventeen of his paintings of historic forts are in the collection of the United States Capitol, and include Fort Defiance, Arizona; Fort Rice in North Dakota, Fort Knox in Maine, Fort Snelling in Minnesota and Fort Sumter in South Carolina.  He also had a military career as military governor of Cincinnati and post commander in New York, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.

He graduated in 1929 from West Point Military Academy and that same year, with the First Infantry was assigned to the upper Mississippi at Fort Snelling in Minnesota.  He returned to West Point and studied for seven years with Robert Weir, art instructor.

In 1837, he published a book on topographic drawing and exhibited his pai   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7988 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  118
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Seth Eastman
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews The New Gold Rush May 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Land as Landscape: American Aesthet February 2003 Scott, Amy No
American Art Review West Point/Points West June 2002 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
American Art Review Painters and the American West October 2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
Southwest Art Proud Legacy: 150 Years of Western January 1999 May, Stephen Yes
Montana: Western History Government Patronage November 1994 Dippie, Brian W. Yes
118 Book References for Seth Eastman
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Boehme, Sarah E Whitney Gallery of American Art 78 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Sweeney, J Gray/J M Faragher Drawing the Borderline Artist-Explorers of the U S-Mexico Boundary Survey
(Exhibition catalog)		 156 Yes
1996 White, Robert (Editor) New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995 88 No
1995 Boehme, Sarah (others) Seth Eastman A Portfolio of North American Indians 171 Yes
1995 Libby, Gary R (editor) Celebrating Florida Works of Art from the Vickers Collection 144 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1994 Tyler, Ron Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress 197 Yes
1993 Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum 298 Yes
1992 Cash, Sarah American Art Paintings from the Amon Carter Museum 59 Yes
1992 Fryd, Vivien Green Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860 273 No
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1992 Ratcliffe, Sam DeShong Painting Texas History to 1900 140 Yes
1992 Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1991 Sweeney, J Gray Masterpieces of Western American Art 239 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Dippie, Brian W Catlin and His Contemporaries The Politics of Patronage 438 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1989 Pennington, Estill Curtis Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art 200 Yes
1989 Rockwell Museum American Western Art 84 Yes
1989 Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images 304 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Gerald Peters Gallery The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 93 Yes
1988 McCracken, Harold Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West 232 No
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 Yes
1987 Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints 192 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 Yes
1986 Muhlert, Jan K (intro) American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum 128 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1983 Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1983 Foxley, William Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art 200 Yes
1983 Goetzmann, William/B Reese Texas Images & Visions
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1983 Moritz, Albert F America the Picturesque In Nineteenth Century Engraving 167 No
1983 Sweeney, J Gray Great Lakes Marine Painting of the Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
1983 Trenton, Patricia/P Hassrick The Rocky Mountains Vision for Artists in the 19th Cen 418 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher Legacy of the West 157 Yes
1981 Gerdts, William H The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1981 Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies) The West as Romantic Horizon 128 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Ballinger, James K Beyond the Endless River W American Drawings, W/C-19th Cen
(Exhibition catalog)		 182 Yes
1979 Broder, Patricia Janis Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection 155 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 Mathey, Francois American Realism 192 No
1978 Richards, Jane L American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era
(Exhibition catalog)		 66 Yes
1978 Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 244 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1976 Coen, Rena Neumann Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914 146 Yes
1976 Editor for Architect of the Capitol Art in the United States Capitol 0 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Buckley, Charles E The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections 377 Yes
1975 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Frontier America/The Far West
(Exhibition catalog)		 232 Yes
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1973 McDermott, John Francis Seth Eastman's Mississippi A Lost Portfolio Recovered 149 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Curry, Larry The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Gussow, Alan Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land (Volumes I and II) 160 Yes
1972 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1970 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Forty Masterworks of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 57 Yes
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1967 Pinckney, Pauline A Painting in Texas The Nineteenth Century 213 Yes
1963 Minneapolis Institute of Art Four Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 No
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1961 Dorra, Henri American Muse, The 163 Yes
1961 McDermott, John Francis Seth Eastman Pictorial Historian of the Indian 270 Yes
1960 Pasadena Art Museum American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1959 McDermott, John Francis The Art of Seth Eastman A Traveling Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 34 No
1958 O'Connor, William Van (editor) A History of the Arts in Minnesota 62 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Rathbone, Perry T (editor) Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers 280 Yes
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1950 U S National Capital S C American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 No
1948 Born, Wolfgang American Landscape Painting An Interpretation 228 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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