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iowabow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTdYs63KuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTdYs63KuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTdYs63KuA
Painting the Flint Creek Encampment at the DCHS

JW_Halverson:
Look up Wayne Justus....western artist, does nice pictures of cowboys and elk.  I posed for him last summer at the South Dakota Artist's Ride.  And that man can flat stick to a horse!

Postman:
LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE
MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITIONS OF
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
by George Catlin
(First published in London in 1844-  Famous for it's paintings) wrote and illustrated a 2 volume book while traveling to document many NA tribes. One of my top 5 of all time. The plates are mesmerizing, with descriptions and comments on the Natives he painted. Hiis narrative of his travels,makes you wish you were there.

JW_Halverson:
I especially enjoy the pictures he did while he was at Fort Union at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers.  I've stood there and moved back and forth until the perspective  in the painting matches the view.  It's kinda a neat feeling to know I am standing within feet of where he stood while working. 

Side note:  many of the illustrations of individual items such as war clubs, clothing, decorations, knives, guns, etc are in museums.  I've seen pics of the artifacts today next to reproductions of the original paintings and they are PERFECT in detail.  Because he did not romanticize or exaggerate or take "poetic license", you can take his work as fact for reproducing period equipment, and know you are being accurate. 

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