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Post by Danny on May 29, 2005 17:56:54 GMT -6
Is there a web site that has all or at least good portion of the artwork depicting the Battle of the Little Big Horn, particularly the last stand?
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on May 30, 2005 4:35:45 GMT -6
Danny, Go to the Google search engine, click the 'images' tab, then key in 'custer's last stand'; this will bring up over 500 thumbnail images which you can then access at will. Tip: don't forget the apostrophe in custer's - as doing so will result in a greatly reduced number of hits.
Ciao, GAC
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Post by shan on May 31, 2005 10:14:52 GMT -6
Danny, I am a painter myself, and I suppose I must have painted around twenty or more versions of some of the events, and the action in and around last stand hill over the years. If you go to my website, www.shanart.com and go to the current button, open it, and then open the Indian button, you will see 3 examples of my work. shan
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on May 31, 2005 11:40:28 GMT -6
I liked the art work on your site, David - and not just the three related to LBH! Do you plan to add to the Custer theme?
Danny - further to my last; I'm not sure from your post if your interest lies in simply accessing examples of last stand art, or whether you are also interested in the history of the Custer iconography? If the latter, then you might be interested in the following (unless you're already familiar with them of course!):
Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth, by Brian W. Dippie (1994 University of Nebraska reprint of 1976 edition) [see particularly chapter 3: 'To the last man - The Artist's and Custer's Last Stand'.
Montana: The Magazine of western History (Autumn 1996), has an article by Brian W. Dippie on pp. 40 - 55 entitled ''What Valor Is - Artists and the Mythic Moment: Creating Custer's Last Stand'. The article is illustrated with 45 images of Last Stand paintings. The privately operated Custer Battlefield Museumat Garryowen has (or had) back issues of this for sale.
The Custer Reader edited by Paul A. Hutton (University of Nebraska 1992) has two chapters of interest: 'The Pictorial Record of the Old West: Custer's Last Stand - John Mulvany, Cassilly Adams, and Otto Becker' by Robert Taft; and the superlative essay by Last Stand artist Eric von Schmidt on the genesis of his 'Here Fell Custer': 'Sunday at the Little Big Horn with George'. The Custer Reader also a photographic essay of Last Stand pictures.
The Custer Album by Lawrence A. Frost (Superior, 1964), reproduces 16 Last Stand paintings in b/w.
Ciao, GAC
Ciao, GAc
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Post by Don Blake on Jun 3, 2005 9:02:18 GMT -6
Saw your stuff at the Biscuit Factory and loved it, David.
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Post by shan on Jun 8, 2005 3:19:46 GMT -6
Thanks to GAC, and Don for compliments, much appreciated. Yes there will be more paintings going in some time this year when I get the chance to get around to doing it. I had a look at that website on Google, and have to say I was rather disappointed on the whole, however I found some ledger art images, { another passion,} for which I am grateful. Shan
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Post by shan on Jul 31, 2005 9:16:43 GMT -6
Danny, I know it is a long time since this thread was visited, but I went into Goggle yesterday and put paintings of the battle of the little bighorn in the image section, and the site below came up. It is a somewhat strange site, but it did have some paintings from the battlefield musuem, including one I have never seen before, an excellent painting showing Renos retreat to the river. www.flickr.com/photos/ 44124324682@N01/sets/95380/ Shan
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Post by bhist on Jul 31, 2005 11:59:30 GMT -6
My personal choice for the best painting of the last stand is "Here Fell Custer" by Eric von Schmidt. It's the painting the NPS uses for their brochure and it is also featured on a wayside exhibit on Last Stand Hill. I felt this way about the painting long before I became close friends with the artist, so I can safely say that I am not biased in my opinion. I had an interesting conversation with Harrison Ford in the summer of 1985 about “Here Fell Custer.” He was infatuated with this painting. We were in the chief historians office admiring a print of it. Ford was amazed at how difficult it was to find Custer in the photo -- he couldn't until I pointed to Custer. This is more than symbolic; the Indians didn't know they were fighting Custer. Most importantly, by putting Custer in the painting yet blending him in, it encourages the viewer to finally look at the last stand as the chaos it really was. You can see the painting and a complete history behind it in the artists' own words at www.vonsworks.com
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