| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.3

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Karl Bodmer's North American Prints

Edited by Brandon K. Ruud. Essays by Ron Tyler and Brandon K. Ruud

(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 383. Illustrations, appendices. $150.00.)

Karl Bodmer's North American Prints is a companion publication to Karl Bodmer's America, a comprehensive catalog of the Bodmer drawings and watercolors in the collection of the Joslyn Art Museum's Durham Center for Western Studies. Like that earlier work, this monumental study is based on the museum's Maximilian-Bodmer collection, "an unparalleled written and visual description of nineteenth-century American landscape and cultures" (p. xiii) that contains Maximilian's written records and hundreds of art works by Bodmer.

In 1832, Maximilian (1782–1867), Prince of Wied-Neuweld, Germany, an experienced naturalist who had made an earlier trip to Latin America, hired the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809–1893) to accompany him on an expedition to the American West. Maximilian's goal was to observe and record what he called the "rude, primitive character of the natural face of North America" (p. 5).

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