Wind River Albert Bierstadt (1870) BEGIN TOUR at TRAVEL DOWN the ESCALATOR to BRO ADMOOR MAIN MEZZANINE the BRO ADMOOR MAIN LOBBY CONCIERGE DESK
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Wind River Albert Bierstadt (1870) BEGIN TOUR AT TRAVEL DOWN THE ESCALATOR TO BRO ADMOOR MAIN MEZZANINE THE BRO ADMOOR MAIN LOBBY CONCIERGE DESK 1 Indian Rescue 2 Indians Playing Checkers Seth Eastman , artist from Maine, 3 After the Hunt 4 Trophy of the Hunt Asher B. Durand (1846) Seth Eastman (1848) made his career with the US Army. George W. Platt (1893) Richard LaBarre Goodwin (1901) He took advantage of tuition-free Asher B. Durand became an experienced engraver artistic training at the United States After George Platt ’s study at Munich’s Richard LaBarre Goodwin painted early in his career. His work dominated the Military Academy in West Point, New Royal Academy, he established his Trophy of the Hunt in 1901 when he was American engraving market. Later he switched to York, and became a drawing instructor studio in New York City. For several in Colorado Springs. He was born in painting and became a leader in the art movement there. On his paid tours of duty as an years he devoted his time to painting Albany, New York and began his career known as the Hudson River School. Most artists army officer, he observed and captured portraits, landscapes, and still life of as a successful portrait painter. After his in this movement trained in Europe and chose to scenes of life of the American Indians fruit and flowers. In 1890 he settled introduction to a style of still life painting paint the romantic scenes of lakes, rocky gorges, in the West. Indians Playing Checkers in Denver and was active as a teacher known as trompe l’oeil (meaning “fool the and forests in the Hudson River Valley with the depicts two American Indians who and lecturer at the University of eye” in French) he switched from portrai - purpose of demonstrating that the beauty of are passing the time playing a game Denver. After the Hunt is a superb ture and began to produce many large America’s landscape was superior to that of Great introduced from the white Americans. example of his personal interpretation canvases of cabin doors decorated with Britain and the Continent. Second generation of this trompe l’oeil school style of hunting equipment and other outdoor Hudson River School artists, traveling west to painting. Notice how he includes his objects. In viewing Trophy of the Hunt, it paint the Rocky Mountains during the period of personal calling card at the bottom becomes obvious how he successfully exploration and settlement, embraced this style of his painting. produced the illusionary effect with the which was to remain as the dominant style of usage of shadows and life size objects. landscape painting until the Civil War. 5 Children of the Mountain 6 The Cliffs of the Green Green River held a special place in in the 7 Mountain View from the Terrace Maxfield Parrish , one of America’s well-loved Thomas Moran (1866) River Wyoming Territory history of Thomas Moran’s art, not only Maxfield Parrish (1932) artists, was a favorite of Broadmoor’s because he painted numerous pictures of founder, Spencer Penrose. Parrish’s Thomas Moran (1887) In the years following the Civil War, the Federal Government these cliffs, but because it was at that site beautiful compositions were the result of sponsored Great Western Surveys with the purpose of where he made his first western landscape his method of application of pigment in discovering information about the areas of the Far West. sketches on his trip with the Hayden Survey thin layers of transparent glazes, then English born Thomas Moran served as guest artist for the to the Yellowstone alternating with coats of varnish. His Hayden Survey in 1871 on the first scientific exploration of region in 1871. application of the darker colors over the the Yellowstone region. His paintings drawn from his field Located on the brighter ones achieved an inner glow which sketches made on that trip introduced the wonders of the Green River was a results in an illusionary appearance from West into American consciousness and persuaded Congress Union Pacific which emanated many brilliant colors. To to annex that region as our Nation’s first national park. Moran depot but it was complete his seamless compositions, he did leave his Children of the Mountain , one of his most never included in removed all signs of brush strokes. Notice important paintings, with Scribner’s publisher, Roswell Smith, any of Moran’s in Mountain View from the Terrace how as collateral for the $500 “loan” that was given to finance his paintings. we have re-created the urns outside on trip to Yellowstone. This painting was never redeemed by the lake. Please stop by our Hotel Bar to Moran, but it was purchased by Smith. find pictures of Maxfield Parrish alongside Toward Seven Falls West and the Mountains Beyond Spencer Penrose. 8 9 Maxfield Parrish (1920) Maxfield Parrish (1930) AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ESCALATOR, TURN LEFT TRAVEL DOWN TO BEGIN THE LOBBY TOUR IN THE HALLWAY THE ESCALATOR TO CONTINUE TOUR AT LEADING TO THE THEATER THE BRO ADMOOR MAIN LOBBY THE BRO ADMOOR SOUTH LOBBY 1 2 The Lost Greenhorn 7 Trappers at Fault —Looking for the Trail 8 Trapper’s Last Shot Alfred Jacob Miller (1851) Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1852) William Tylee Ranney (1850) In the Sagebrush Carl Rungius (1900) Alfred Jacob Miller , English artist, Arthur Fitzwilliam William Tylee Ranney , from Connecticut , portrait painter from Tait , was first introduced to the experienced the West in 1836 when he Baltimore, had not west when in England he met enlisted in the military during the Texas ventured further west American artist, George Catlin. Revolution. His sketches of mountain men, than New Orleans, when After participating in Catlin’s trappers, early settlers, and the enchanting he was invited by Scottish Indian Gallery Exhibition by prairies were later incorporated into aristocrat, Captain enacting Indian dances in Native paintings. Trapper’s Last Shot , based William Drummond American costumes, he came to upon a true story, depicts a lone trapper German born Carl Rungius came to America in 1894 to join the brave Stewart, as guest artist America and painted western that has found himself in the site of two new world of Teddy Roosevelt and Frederic Remington. Following his to sketch and record his scenes for ten years. The tall armed enemies running down the bank first trip to the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone in 1895, he devoted trip to the annual prairie grass pictured in Trappers toward him. Ranney has captured the himself to the study and depiction of North America’s wide-open spaces. rendezvous in the Wind River Mountains. John, from England, was at Fault —Looking for the Trail , fear and anticipation of danger in the He is most often recognized as the master painter of moose, bear, Stewart’s trip chef. After boasting of his buffalo hunting skills, John would suggest that these are eyes of both the trapper and his horse. elk, and other great game animals; however, in this painting, he has was allowed time off. As you can see, he became miserably lost and buffalo hunters rather than composed a western scene of two cowboys out on the range. had no idea which direction to return to camp. trappers. View of Pikes Peak Family Life on the Frontier Pioneers in Camp 6 Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise 9 Blackfeet Card Players John Mix Stanley (1869) 10 Long Jakes “the Rocky Mountain Man” 3 4 5 Alfred Jacob Miller (1845) Charles Deas (1844) George Caleb Bingham George Caleb Bingham (1845) George Caleb Bingham (1845) (1872) Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise is Alfred Jacob Miller ’s pictorial Long Jakes, “the Rocky document of life on the trail with a fur-company caravan as it crossed Mountain Man” , depicts a lone George Caleb Bingham is greatly the wide Kansas-Nebraska plains on the way to Fort Laramie and the hunter traversing the Great respected as one of our classic Rocky Mountains beyond. Miller depicts the morning routine when all Plains and Rocky Mountains. artists whose paintings portray preparations should be complete and teams ready to depart. The The ominous atmosphere in both a sincere and truthful long curving line of wagons which is fading into the distant horizon this painting is characteristic interpretation of life at his time reveals the boundless prairie. of much of Charles Deas ’ along the Mississippi and Missouri work. As the man and his horse Rivers. He was involved in the move forward, they appear to political, social, and cultural life of be on constant guard against 19th century America and was an trouble, glancing to the rear 11 The Broadmoor eyewitness to westward expansion. Maxfield Parrish (1920) John Mix Stanley became one of the most important artists of the American as if startled by a sound behind Scholars agree that both of these frontier. In April of 1853, Major Isaac I. Stevens, governor and Superintendent them. Deas was nicknamed Maxfield Parrish accepted the commission from two paintings allude to Bingham’s of Indian Affairs of Washington Territory, hired Stanley to accompany the Rocky Mountain because he Spencer Penrose to create a painting of The own childhood. Both are nocturnal Pacific Railroad Surveys in their effort to discover the best route for the dressed “like a fur hunter”. Broadmoor shortly after his visit in 1920. Until then, paintings in which the brightest Transcontinental Railroad. This route led through Blackfeet country in northern With this painting, Deas he had too many other contracts and had not been light emanates from a source Montana. In Stanley’s Blackfeet Card Players , the posture and expression established the mountain man able to fit it in.