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Art of the gold rush /

The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst
Autores Corporativos: Oakland Museum, Crocker Art Museum, National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
Otros Autores: Jones, Harvey, 1935-, Holland, Katherine Church
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Stephen C. McGough and Dennis M. Power
  • Acknowledgments / Harvey L. Jones, Janice T. Driesbach and Katherine C. Holland
  • Map of the gold country
  • Introduction: The lure of gold / Janice T. Driesbach
  • First in the field: Thomas A. Ayres and E. Hall Martin / Janice T. Driesbach and Harvey L. Jones
  • Scenes of mining life: John Prendergast, Augusto Ferran, William Mcilvaine, W. Taber, William Birch Mcmurtrie, Harrison Eastman, Samuel Stillman Osgood, A.G., John Henry Dunnel, Washington F. Friend, John Woodhouse Audubon, Francis Samuel Marryat, and E. Godchaux / Janice T. Driesbach
  • Portrait painter to the elite: William Smith Jewett / Janice T. Driesbach
  • The Hessian party: Charles Christian Nahl, Arthur Nahl, and August Wenderoth / Harvey L. Jones
  • Souvenirs of the mother lode: Ernest Narjot and George Henry Burgess / Harvey L. Jones
  • Mining the picturesque: A.D.O. Browere / Janice T. Driesbach.