From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Ranging from the 1820s to the present, these paintings from a private collection feature all of the famous Western artists, including Remington, Russell, Schreyvogel, O'Keeffe, Bierstadt, Moran, Bingham, Catlin, Miller, Farny, and many others who seldom painted Western scenes: Benton, Henri, Bellows, Hartley, Hassam, and Twachtman, among others. Occasionally a painting is juxtaposed with a stylistically similar European artwork. The collection is particularly rich in early-20th-century Taos and Santa Fe artists. Organized into portraiture, still lifes, genre painting, and landscapes, this book, with its 200 color reproductions, will enthrall art lovers. Accompanying commentary about both the paintings and the artists is lively and instructive.Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The nemesis of paintings of the landscape and people of the American West is the documentalist state of mind that cares more about accurate rendition of physical cultural detail than about a picture's aesthetic qualities. So says Troccoli at the outset of her commentary accompanying this resplendent display of one of the greatest collections of so-called western art. She thereafter never lets us forget the painterly and stylistic qualities of the paintings she focuses on in sections devoted, respectively, to portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, and landscapes. She begins by considering a very exceptional work by an artist who otherwise was rather commonplace, discussing Buffalo Dancer by Randall Davey as being far more appreciable as a fauvist-influenced color study than as a Native American document. She is very persuasive, as she continues to be throughout. The trick for most readers will be tearing their eyes away from the book's 188 superb colorplates to attend to her. Ray Olson
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Book Description
This richly illustrated book guides us through the finest private collection of art of the American West--the paintings of the Anschutz Collection. The works in the collection reflect every phase in the history of American art since the 1820s and include impressive works by lesser known artists as well as pictures by such masters as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, and Georgia O'Keeffe.Published in association with the Denver Art Museum

From the Inside Flap
This book takes us on a connoisseur's tour of art of the Old West, guiding us through the Anschutz collection, the finest group of paintings of the American West still in private hands. Joan Carpenter Troccoli looks at these paintings as aesthetic objects rather than historical documents, allowing us to see each work as a self-conscious fashioning of a personal vision and an integral part of mainstream American art.The collection is wide-ranging in scope, covering every phase in the history of American art since the 1820s. There are works from all the major artists who have depicted the West, including those who painted western subjects only occasionally as well as those whose subjects were predominantly western. Among the artists represented are Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, George Bellows, Ernest Blumenschein, George Catlin, Stuart Davis, Asher B. Durand, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Thomas Moran, John Marin, Alfred Jacob Miller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and Walter Ufer. The collection is particularly rich in paintings made in Taos and Santa Fe in the first half of the twentieth century, when major American artists often found inspiration and stylistic renewal in the Southwest.This book accompanies an exhibition that opens at the Denver Art Museum in October 2000 and will then travel to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

About the Author
Joan Carpenter Troccoli is deputy director of the Denver Art Museum and former director of Gilcrease Museum. Philip Anschutz's daughter, Sarah Anschutz Hunt, has contributed an insightful and valuable memoir about growing up with the collection.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book takes us on a connoisseur's tour of art of the Old West, guiding us through the Anschutz collection, the finest group of paintings of the American West still in private hands. Joan Carpenter Troccoli looks at these paintings as aesthetic objects rather than historical documents, allowing us to see each work as a self-conscious fashioning of a personal vision and an integral part of mainstream American art.

The collection is wide-ranging in scope, covering every phase in the history of American art since the 1820s. There are works from all the major artists who have depicted the West, including those who painted western subjects only occasionally as well as those whose subjects were predominantly western. Among the artists represented are Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, George Bellows, Ernest Blumenschein, George Catlin, Stuart Davis, Asher B. Durand, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Thomas Moran, John Marin, Alfred Jacob Miller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and Walter Ufer. The collection is particularly rich in paintings made in Taos and Santa Fe in the first half of the twentieth century, when major American artists often found inspiration and stylistic renewal in the Southwest.

This book accompanies an exhibition that opens at the Denver Art Museum in October 2000 and will then travel to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

About the Author: Joan Carpenter Troccoli is deputy director of the Denver Art Museum and former director of Gilcrease Museum. Philip Anschutz's daughter, Sarah Anschutz Hunt, has contributed an insightful and valuable memoir about growing up with the collection.

SYNOPSIS

This richly illustrated book guides us through the finest private collection of art of the American West—the paintings of the Anschutz Collection. The works in the collection reflect every phase in the history of American art since the 1820s and include impressive works by lesser known artists as well as pictures by such masters as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, and Georgia O'Keeffe.Published in association with the Denver Art Museum

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal

Philip Anschutz's Western painting collection is said to be the finest of its kind. Just as it has grown and improved over the years, so have its traveling exhibition catalogs. From American Masters in the West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection (1974) through West West West: Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection (1991) to the current catalog, the text has expanded, the number of examples has increased, illustrations are larger and in color, and the artworks are now organized by the themes of portraiture, still life, genre painting, and landscape. Almost 200 visual interpretations of Western subjects by 127 artists have been selected for the traveling exhibit, which opens in Anschutz's hometown of Denver. In a scholarly text, Troccoli (deputy director, Denver Art Museum) integrates these examples of 19th- and 20th-century Western art into the overall development of American art, an effort that entails bringing in international training and influences (such as European academic styles, Impressionism, and Cubism). Enthusiastically recommended for academic and public libraries.--Anne Marie Lane, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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