Allegorical Scene of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Cogniet's painting presents the Lewis and Clark Expedition not as a documentary scene but as…
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Bird’s-eye View of the Mandan Village, 1800 Miles above St. Louis
Catlin's painting presents an elevated, oblique view of an earthlodge village on a bluff above…
Buffalo Chase, Mouth of the Yellowstone
George Catlin's Buffalo Chase, Mouth of the Yellowstone depicts a group of mounted Plains hunters…
Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony
Catlin's painting depicts the central public day of the Mandan O-kee-pa, the four-day ceremony held…
Captain William Clark Meeting Indians of the Northwest
Russell's painting shows Captain William Clark in a moment of formal encounter with a group…
Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory
Moran's canvas shows a stretch of eroded sandstone cliffs rising above a curve of the…
Floyd’s Grave, Where Lewis and Clark Buried Sergeant Floyd in 1804
Catlin's small oil shows a single bluff rising above the Missouri River, topped by a…
Fort Union, Mouth of the Yellowstone River
Catlin's view shows the American Fur Company's Fort Union, completed in 1828 at the confluence…
Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village
Bierstadt's Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village shows a cluster of conical hide lodges set on open…
Indian Women Moving
Charles M. Russell's Indian Women Moving depicts a Plains Indian family group on the march…
Indians Discovering Lewis and Clark
Russell's painting presents the encounter from the Native perspective, a compositional choice that distinguishes it…
Lewis and Clark at the Three forks
Paxson's large canvas depicts the Corps of Discovery at the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison,…
Lewis and Clark at Three Forks (mural detail)
Paxson's painting depicts Sacagawea at the Three Forks of the Missouri River in southwestern Montana,…
Lewis and Clark at Travelers Rest
Paxson's large canvas shows the Corps of Discovery encamped at Travelers Rest, the meadow at…
Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flatheads at Ross’ Hole
Russell's mural shows the encounter between the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Salish (then…
Lewis and Clark Reach Shoshone Camp Led by Sacajawea the “Bird Woman”
Russell's painting depicts the meeting between the Corps of Discovery and a Shoshone band on…
Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea at the Great Falls of Missouri
Seltzer's small oil shows the Corps of Discovery party at the Great Falls of the…
Lewis Party Crossing the Clark Fork
Paxson's mural depicts the Lewis party fording the Clark Fork River in western Montana during…
Lost in a Snowstorm — We Are Friends
Russell's horizontal canvas shows a tense encounter on a windswept plain during a blizzard. A…
Mah-to-toh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief in Full Dress
Catlin's three-quarter-length portrait shows Mah-to-toh-pa (Four Bears), second chief of the Mandan, in formal regalia.…
Meriwether Lewis
Charles Willson Peale's portrait shows Meriwether Lewis from the chest up, turned slightly to the…
Mount Hood, Oregon
Bierstadt's "Mount Hood, Oregon" presents the 11,250-foot stratovolcano rising above the forested Cascade foothills, its…
Mount St. Helens, Columbia River, Oregon
Bierstadt's painting depicts Mount St. Helens rising in the distance above the Columbia River, its…
Pipestone Quarry on the Coteau des Prairies
Catlin's painting depicts the red pipestone quarry on the Coteau des Prairies in what is…
Prairie Bluffs at Sunrise, near the Mouth of the Yellowstone River
Catlin's small oil shows the eroded bluffs along the upper Missouri near its confluence with…
Prairie Moonrise
Charles Fritz's "Prairie Moonrise" is a small oil on canvas, six by eight inches, depicting…
Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast
Bierstadt's canvas shows a storm-battered stretch of the Pacific Northwest coast, with breaking surf in…
River Bluffs, 1320 Miles above St. Louis
Catlin's small oil shows a stretch of the upper Missouri River where wind- and water-cut…
Sun Worship in Montana
Russell's Sun Worship in Montana shows a lone Plains Indian man, mounted on a light-colored…
The Buffalo Hunt
Russell's painting shows a group of mounted Plains Indian hunters in the midst of a…
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Moran's canvas depicts the Yellowstone River plunging through its canyon from a high vantage on…
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Burnham's oil composition presents the Corps of Discovery as a small group of figures within…
The Pacific from Point of Clark’s View
Charles Fritz's painting depicts the view westward from Tillamook Head on the northern Oregon coast,…
The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Bierstadt's monumental canvas presents an idealized panorama of the Wind River Range in present-day Wyoming,…
The Silk Robe
Charles M. Russell's The Silk Robe shows a Plains Indian encampment scene centered on the…
We Proceeded On
Charles Fritz's We Proceeded On shows the Corps of Discovery strung out along a wooded…
William Clark
Charles Willson Peale's portrait of William Clark shows the explorer in bust-length view, dressed in…
William Clark as Governor of Missouri Territory
Harding's full-length portrait shows William Clark in middle age, depicted in formal civilian dress rather…
York in the Lodge of the Mandans
Russell's painting depicts a scene inside an earthlodge during the Corps of Discovery's winter encampment…
