Idaho Art History

Idaho Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "Idaho Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.

Following the links to Resource Library articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.

Listed after museums are links to online resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.

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Resource Library essays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:

As of April, 2015 Resource Library contains 81 pages including the state's name, yet no articles or essays specific to this state. We recommend that researchers always search within Resource Library for additional material. Please see TFAO's page How to research topics not listed for more information.

Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:

Boise Art Museum

(above: Boise Art Museum. Photo: 2010 John Hazeltine)

Other online information:

Artists from Idaho in Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Bart Walker: Tour the West is a 2023 exhibit at the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art which says: "Walker backpacks throughout his hometown region of Teton Valley, Idaho documenting oil sketches on site and uses those in the studio to recapture the liveliness of the moment on a larger canvas." Accessed 6/23

Courthouse Murals, by Dianna Cammarota, from Boise City Revue. Accessed August, 2015.

Laura McPhee: The River of No Return is a 2013 exhibit at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art which says: "A journey across geographic place, art historical precedents, and the very history of photographic image making find a dynamic relationship in The River of No Return, a series created by Laura McPhee over a multiyear residency in the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho, supported by the Alturas Foundation." Also see artist's website Accessed 2/19

This is Bliss: Jon Horvath is a 2020 exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography for which Jon Horvath says: "This Is Bliss is a transmedia narrative project investigating the vanishing roadside geography and culture of a rural Idaho town named Bliss. The project is philosophically rooted in a broad consideration of how entrenched mythologies of place and traditional mythologies of happiness collide, and are frequently confounded, in a location that bears a complex narrative of booms and busts and reflects the complicated history of American Idealism and Manifest Destiny." Also see website of artist. Accessed 10/20

Books, listed by year of publication, with most recently published book listed first:

One Hundred Years of Idaho Art, 1850-1950: Boise Art Museum, June 23-August 19, 1990, By Sandy Harthorn, Kathleen Bettis, Boise Art Museum, Boise Art Museum. Published by s.n], 1990. 134 pages

(above: Thomas Moran, A Snowy Mountain Range (Path of Souls, Idaho), 1896, oil on canvas, 14 x 27 inches, Denver Art Museum, The Roath Collection. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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