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Karl Bodmer's North American Prints. Edited by Brandon K. Ruud. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum / Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xvi + 382 pp. Color plates, appendixes. $150.00.
The most authoritative study of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer's American prints to have been issued to date, this profusely illustrated volume represents the culmination of several years of exhaustive research by curators and others associated with the Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. A veritable catalogue raisonné of the eighty-one aquatints that comprise the artist's North American atlas (183943 ), it does for the Bodmer series what previous compilations of this kind have done for the published works of John James Audubon and George Catlin.
The text for Karl Bodmer's North American Prints features lucid essays by Ron Tyler, history professor at the University of Texas...