Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies
Joslyn Art Museum’s Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies was established in 1980 to support research and exhibitions devoted to art and culture of the American West. Joslyn's exceptional holdings of watercolors and drawings by nineteenth-century artist-explorers Alfred Jacob Miller and Karl Bodmer form the core of the Durham Center collection, along with the three-volume Tagebuch, or journal, of Bodmer’s sponsor, Prince Maximilian of Wied, who traveled up the Missouri River in company with the artist in 1832–34.
The Durham Center has published a number of major volumes on American Western art, including Karl Bodmer’s America (1984), Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints (2004), and Joni L. Kinsey’s study Thomas Moran's West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste (2005). An annotated translation of Maximilian’s Tagebuch is currently being prepared: volumes 1 and 2 of The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied were published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008 and 2010; the final volume will be available in the summer of 2012.
Exhibitions, lectures, and events sponsored by the Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies will be listed on our website.
What's Pictured: Karl Bodmer (Swiss, 1809-1893), The White Castles on the Missouri, watercolor on paper, 9 x 16 3/8, Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of Enron Art Foundation, 1986
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