Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection

Authors

Kenneth Haltman, Michigan State University

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Karl Bodmer's field sketches executed along the upper Missouri between 1832 and 1834 constitute one of the principal sources of visual evidence regarding the ethnohistory of the Northern Plains. In this volume a less well-known selection of these works, both drawings and watercolors, held in the collections of the Newberry Library receives for the first time sustained scholarly consideration, situated in a historical context defined by the ethnologic ambitions of Bodmer's patron, Prince Maximilian.