19th-21st Century Western Genre Art

19th-21st Century Western Genre Art

Including Cowboy Art and Lore of the Historic West

DVD/VHS videos

American Heritage is a two-part 30 minute Wilton program that showcases American history through vivid images of past and present. An engaging overview for American art history and social studies students, particularly at the middle school level.

EARLY AMERICAN CRAFTS A comprehensive look at American folk arts from the cradle to the grave. Beautiful examples of household crafts, glass, silver, painting, scrimshaw, and gravestones complete with the ?how and why? of each craft.

AMERICAN WESTWARD MOVEMENT A stunning panorama of American expansion as seen through the eyes of artists who were there: Catlin, Bingham, Bierstadt, and Remington just to name a few. This colorful and historic program includes instructional maps, etchings, paintings, and photography.

Artists of the West is a 56 minute 2000 PBS Home Video. Actor Joseph Campanella narrates a dramatic story of the American West as seen through the eyes of three pre-eminent artists : Charles Russell, Thomas Moran, and Frederic Remington

Art of the American West Series from the Collection of the Museum of Western Art, Denver, has three sections (22 minutes each segment):

Before the White Man (Albert Blerstadt, Thomas Moran, Charles Wimar, .Henry Farny, Thomas Hill, Worthington Whittredge, Frederic Remington),

Westward Expansion (Charles Christian Nahl, C.M. Russell, Remington, Frank Schoonover and others)

The Old West Is Dead (the influence of modern art in the works of Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keefe, Ernest Blumenshein, Victor Higgins).

Cowboy Art is a 55 minute video exploring this uniquely American genre which helped transform the cowboys and Indians legends into a mythology. Explores the revival of interest in this genre, and shows "cowboy artists" at work at a Pueblo village in New Mexico and at a round-up ranch in Texas."Profiles three cowboy artists who live and work in the American Southwest. Painter Gordon Snidow (b. 1936) in Texas; sculptor Joe Beeler (b. 1931) of Arizona; Gary Niblett (b.1943) paints scenes of Pueblo Indian culture in New Mexico." Description source: Amon Carter Museum Teacher Resource Center. The Museum contains a comprehensive lending library including many videos. TFAO wishes to extend appreciation to Katherine Moloney, Teaching and Visual Resources Coordinator, for acquainting TFAO with the Museum's collection.

Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists, The. An examination of the work and philosophy of California cowboy artist, Gerald Gaxiola, who defies categorization but works in the medium of painting, blockprints, sculptures, music and entertainment. Film shows Gaxiola performing on stage and reviews an astonishing array of his works including paintings inspired by Vincent Van Gogh, ceramic Cadillacs, landscapes, color block prints of Berkeley landmarks, cowboy clothing he has designed, the designing and construction of his "bunk house", and concludes with a visit to the annual celebration of Maestro Day, held at Albany High School, California. Dist.: Flower Films. 199?. 54 min. Video/C 4066. Available from Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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