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Charles Deas

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Charles Deas (1818 - 1867) was active/lived in Missouri, New York.  Charles Deas is known for Indian and frontier genre painting.

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 Known as a painter of dramatic and romantic western scenes, he was born in Philadelphia to a family of career military people including his grandfather, Ralph Izard, a Revolutionary War hero. It was expected that Charles would be a military man, but he grew to prefer painting trips in the Hudson River Valley to sitting in classes at West Point Academy. In the mid-1830s, he studied briefly at the National Academy of Design, earning a reputation for sporting and domestic genre scenes. He first exhibited at the Academy in 1838 and became an elected Associate in 1839.

In 1840, he traveled West, having seen an exhibition of Indian paintings of George Catlin. He also visited his brother who was a military officer at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He traveled all over the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and throughout the Platte River region. He settled in St. Louis for nearly 10 years where he had considerable following as well as back East where he continued to s   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3972 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Charles Deas

   Publications  Book References:  77
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Deas
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Charles Deas and 1840's America September 2010 Clark, Carol Yes
ARTnews The New Gold Rush May 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
ARTnews Art Market, Auction Records for February 2003 McCord, Andy Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Land as Landscape: American Aesthet February 2003 Scott, Amy No
American Art Review The American West: Out of Myth December 2000 Hassrick, Peter Yes
Southwest Art Museum Preview April 2000 Hassrick, Peter Yes
Southwest Art Proud Legacy: 150 Years of Western January 1999 May, Stephen Yes
77 Book References for Charles Deas
Year Author Title Pages Color
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1996 Kinsey, Joni Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1994 Lubin, David M Picturing a Nation Art and Social Change in 19th Century America 364 Yes
1994 Tyler, Ron Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress 197 Yes
1993 Miller, Davd C (editor) American Iconology 344 No
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1991 Stewart, Rick (et al) Carl Wimar Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 251 Yes
1991 Sweeney, J Gray Masterpieces of Western American Art 239 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 190 Yes
1989 Hassrick, Peter H Charles M Russell 155 Yes
1989 National Gallery of Art American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 203 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Gaehtgens, Thomas W (editor) Bilder aus der Neuen Welt Amerikanische Malerei des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderts 328 Yes
1988 Gerald Peters Gallery The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 93 Yes
1988 McCracken, Harold Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West 232 No
1988 Thrapp, Dan L. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography Volume One (A-F) 524 No
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints 192 Yes
1986 Muhlert, Jan K (intro) American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum 128 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1982 Glanz, Dawn How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier 205 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies) The West as Romantic Horizon 128 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Broder, Patricia Janis Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection 155 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 William Rockhill Nelson G of A Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1976 Coen, Rena Neumann Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914 146 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Smith, Bradley The U S A A History in Art 296 Yes
1974 Brown, Dee The Westerners 288 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1970 Flexner, James Thomas Nineteenth Century American Painting 256 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Public Education Association The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1956 Baur, John I H La Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento 58 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Rathbone, Perry T (editor) Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers 280 Yes
1953 Baur, John I H American Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements 60 No
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1952 Corcoran Gallery of Art Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1952 McCracken, Harold Portrait of the Old West 216 Yes
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1932 Turner, Martha M. Early Artists in Nebraska 20 No
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