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Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950

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Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950Saturday, March 11, 2017 - Saturday, September 09, 2017

This traveling exhibition is a collaboration between the BYU Museum of Art and the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas. The exhibition presents a unique examination of twentieth-century images of the American West as seen through the eyes of the members of the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon, and through films of the era.

"Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900 – 1950," is organized by the Brigham Young University Museum of Art and the Stark Museum of Art, and made possible in part by generous grants from the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation and the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.

Exhibition Venues:

Brigham Young University Museum of Art, February 19, 2016 - August 13, 2016

Chrysler Museum of Art, October 29, 2016 - February 5, 2017

Stark Museum of Art, March 11, 2017 - September 9, 2017

Image: Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), "Mesas in Shadow," 1926, oil on canvas, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Gift of Herald R. Clark

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Apaches Visiting in Taos
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
before 1934
The Cattle Buyer
William Herbert Dunton
c. 1921
Corpus Christi Procession
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
prior to 1932
Council Call of Crows, Montana
Joseph Henry Sharp
c. 1908
The Extraordinary Affray
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
1926
The Faithful Ponies
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
1918
Fiesta Crowds, San Juan, New Mexico
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
c. 1922
North Taos Pueblo in Moonlight
Eanger Irving Couse
1928-1930
The Oil Promoter
Joseph Henry Sharp
1920
Old Frontier Stuff
Joseph Henry Sharp
1927
The Pima Basket
Eanger Irving Couse
1923
Plasterers of Taos
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
1932
Romaldita
William Herbert Dunton
c. 1922
Sunset in the Foothills
William Herbert Dunton
c. 1930
Taos Tapestry
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus