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John Stanley

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John Mix Stanley (1814 - 1872) was active/lived in Michigan, Washington, California, Kansas.  John Stanley is known for Indian life, landscape, portrait.

Born in Canandaigua, New York, John Mix Stanley became one of the most significant artists of the American frontier but also one of the most tragic in that three separate fires essentially destroyed his lifetime's work.

He was raised in upstate New York where his father had a tavern that many Indians and other frontier types visited. At age 14, he became an orphan and apprenticed to a coach maker. But looking for better work, he moved to Detroit in 1834 and became a house and sign painter and subsequently trained with European educated James Bowman, who saw one of his signs and admired his work.

From 1836 to 1838, Stanley painted portraits in the Chicago area and in 1839, based at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, tried unsuccessfully to support himself as a painter of Indian portraits and genre. He returned East and studied in Philadelphia and by 1842, had a studio at Fort Gibson in present-day Oklahoma, and he painted Indians and frontiersman. In 1846, the work from this peri   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9140 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  129
Magazine References:  14

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14 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Stanley
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Treasure Troves Next Door March 2006 Gomez, Edward M. Yes
Art & Auction Best Western July 2005 Dorfman, John Yes
American Art Review Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distincti October 2004 Spooner, Peter F Yes
The Magazine Antiques The Westervelt Warner Museum August 2004 Kelly, Franklin Yes
California Art Club Newsletter Land as Landscape: American Aesthet February 2003 Scott, Amy No
American Art Review West Point/Points West June 2002 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
American Art Review Stark Museum of Art December 2001 Hunter, Richard; David Hunt Yes
American Art Review Amon Carter Museum December 2001 Lawton, Rebecca Yes
Montana: Western History Flying Buffaloes' July 2001 Dippie, Brian W. No
American Art Review The American West: Out of Myth December 2000 Hassrick, Peter Yes
American Art Review Painters and the American West October 2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Yes
Southwest Art Proud Legacy: 150 Years of Western January 1999 May, Stephen Yes
Montana: Western History Government Patronage November 1994 Dippie, Brian W. Yes
Art & Antiques 01 April 1990 Collector's Choice Yes
129 Book References for John Stanley
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2009 Poulton, Donna L. and Vern G. Swanson Painters of Utah's Canyons and Deserts 304 Yes
2006 Craig, Susan (Compiler) Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945 0 No
2006 Udall, Sharyn R; Julie Schimmel (Introduction) Santa Fe Art Colony: Gerald Peters Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 127 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
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
2003 Tierney, Curtis (editor) Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper 71 Yes
2002 Beal, Graham American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2002 Hassrick, Peter H Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park 248 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
2002 Komanecky, Michael K. (editor) Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights 352 Yes
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
2000 Troccoli, Joan Carpenter Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection 218 Yes
1999 Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959 251 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1998 Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
1997 Boehme, Sarah E Whitney Gallery of American Art 78 Yes
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
1996 White, Robert (Editor) New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995 88 No
1995 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-75 329 Yes
1994 Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815 628 No
1994 Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell Paintings of the Southwest 128 No
1994 Tyler, Ron Prints of the West Prints from the Library of Congress 197 Yes
1992 Cash, Sarah American Art Paintings from the Amon Carter Museum 59 Yes
1992 Curators, Buffalo Bill Center Treasures From Our West 57 Yes
1992 Forbes, David Encounters with Paradise Views of Hawaii and Its People 1778-1941 285 Yes
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1992 Ratcliffe, Sam DeShong Painting Texas History to 1900 140 Yes
1992 Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1991 Boime, Albert The Magisterial Gaze Manifest Destiny & Landscape Painting 1830-1865 188 Yes
1991 Cunningham, Elizabeth West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection 131 Yes
1991 Detroit Institute of the Arts American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1) 340 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 Bruce, Chris Myth of the West (Exhibition Henry Art Gallery, Seattle)
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1990 Dippie, Brian W Catlin and His Contemporaries The Politics of Patronage 438 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Tyler, Ron American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists 208 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Rockwell Museum American Western Art 84 Yes
1989 Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images 304 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Fees, Paul; Sarah E Boehme Frontier America: Art From Buffalo Bill Historical Center 128 Yes
1988 Gerald Peters Gallery The West Explored The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 93 Yes
1988 Goetzman, William H Looking at the Land of Promise Pioneer Images of the Pacific Northwest 122 Yes
1988 McCracken, Harold Great Painters and Illustrators Of the Old West 232 No
1988 Thrapp, Dan L Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography Volume Three (P-Z) 597 No
1987 Hassrick, Royal B History of Western American Art 192 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan The Wayward Muse Historical Survey of Painting in Buffalo
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1987 Sweeney, J Gray Artists of Michigan from The Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1987 Tyler, Ron; Carol Clark, Linda Ayres, et all American Frontier Life Early Western Painting and Prints 192 Yes
1987 Viola, Herman J; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Exploring the West 256 Yes
1986 Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann The West of the Imagination 457 Yes
1986 Muhlert, Jan K (intro) American Paintings Selections from the Amon Carter Museum 128 Yes
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
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Hassrick, Peter H Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute 127 Yes
1984 Wilmerding, John The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1983 Goetzmann, William/B Reese Texas Images & Visions
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1983 Moritz, Albert F America the Picturesque In Nineteenth Century Engraving 167 No
1983 Trenton, Patricia/P Hassrick The Rocky Mountains Vision for Artists in the 19th Cen 418 Yes
1982 Glanz, Dawn How the West Was Drawn American Art and the Settling of the Frontier 205 No
1982 Hunt, David C; Marsha V. Gallagher Legacy of the West 157 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Eiteljorg, Harrison Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection 172 Yes
1981 Goetzmann, William H and Joseph C. Porter; David Hunt (Biographies) The West as Romantic Horizon 128 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 196 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Sturgis, Hollister Angels and Urchins Images of Children at the Joslyn 88 Yes
1980 Ballinger, James K Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 206 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara Nature and Culture American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875 323 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 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1979 Reps, John W Cities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning 827 Yes
1978 Getlein, Frank The Lure of the Great West 352 Yes
1978 Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 244 Yes
1977 Barsness, Larry The Bison in Art A Graphic Chronicle of the Ameican Bison
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 Yes
1977 Hassrick, Peter H The Way West Art of Frontier America 240 Yes
1976 Coen, Rena Neumann Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota 1820-1914 146 Yes
1976 Demetrion, James T. 19th Century American Portraits from Iowa Collections 4 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Ballinger, James K The American West Selections/Kennedy Galleries
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Brown, Dee The Westerners 288 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1974 Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay) 19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Hills, Patricia The American Frontier Images and Myths
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Curry, Larry The American West Painters from Catlin to Russell
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Oakland Museum Tropical Scenes/19th Cen Painters of California
(Exhibition catalog)		 50 Yes
1971 Harmsen, Dorothy Harmsen's Western Americana 212 Yes
1971 Rossi, Paul/David Hunt The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute 335 Yes
1971 Tucson Art Center The West, Artists and Illustrators 32 No
1970 Hawes, Louis The American Scene 1820-1900 An exhibition of landscape and outdoor genre
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 No
1970 Howat, John K (others) 19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 Yes
1970 Phoenix Art Museum Art of the Western Scene 1880-194
(Exhibition catalog)		 28 No
1969 Jorgensen, Joseph G John Mix Stanley A Traveler in the West
(Exhibition catalog)		 29 No
1968 Genesco, S U College, New York Hudson River School
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 No
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1956 McCracken, Harold Western Paintings A Distinguished Collection (of) 32 No
1954 Rathbone, Perry T (editor) Westward the Way: Louisiana Territory as Seen by Artists and Writers 280 Yes
1953 Taft, Robert Artists and Illustrators- Old West 1850-1900 400 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
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1945 Sweet, Frederick A The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition
(Exhibition catalog)		 123 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1942 Kinietz, W Vernon John Mix Stanley and His Indian Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 90 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
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