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  2. Category:Artists of the American West - Wikipedia

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    Visual artists depicting the 18th−19th century western American Frontier and American Old West, and the 20th−21st century Western United States, in various artistic media. Artworks of this American Western genre /period/region are also referred to as "Western Art," distinct from Western art of European Art history .

  3. Charles Marion Russell - Wikipedia

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    His 1912 mural Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross' Hole hangs in the House chambers of the Montana Capitol in Helena, [4] and his 1918 painting Piegans sold for $5.6 million at a 2005 auction. [5] In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [6]

  4. American Gothic - Wikipedia

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    American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture.

  5. Grant Wood - Wikipedia

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    Grant Wood's boyhood home, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa. [2]Wood was born in rural Iowa, 4 mi (6.43 km) east of Anamosa, on February 13, 1891, the son of Hattie DeEtte Weaver Wood and Francis Maryville Wood.

  6. 20th-century Western painting - Wikipedia

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    Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art.One of the cornerstones of 20th-century modern art.. 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art.

  7. Albert Bierstadt - Wikipedia

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    Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.

  8. Harold Dow Bugbee - Wikipedia

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    His early patron was Ernest O. Thompson, [4] a hotel owner, Amarillo mayor, and later, long-serving member of the Texas Railroad Commission. Thompson commissioned 14 oil paintings for the Longhorn Room of his prestigious Amarillo Hotel. He also sponsored Bugbee's first large art showing.

  9. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - Wikipedia

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    Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostess, who was born into the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married into the Whitney family.