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Painting the Dakota : Seth Eastman at Fort Snelling / by Marybeth Lorbiecki ; paintings and drawings by Seth Eastman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorbiecki, Marybeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875.
- Eastman, Seth.
- Dakota Indians--Portraits.
- Dakota Indians.
- Dakota Indians--Pictorial works.
- Artists--Minnesota--Fort Snelling--Biography.
- Artists.
- Dakota Indians--Social life and customs.
- Minnesota--Fort Snelling.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Pictorial works.
- Portraits.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 104 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Afton, MN : Afton Historical Society Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Eastman Captures in his art the details of the Native People's everyday life. The Eastman paintings in Painting the Dakota are recognized as the single most important source of information about Native American life in pre-territorial Minnesota.
- Contents:
- 1 A Frontier Fort 11
- 2 Dakota Kin 21
- 3 Decisions 27
- 4 Map of an Artist 33
- 5 From Landscapes to Indians 40
- 6 Return to a World Familiar and Strange 45
- 7 Dakota Days 53
- 8 Commander, Artist, and Book Illustrator 74
- 9 National Indian Painter 82
- Timeline of Seth Eastman's Life 93.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 100) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1890434329
- OCLC:
- 44089410
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