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Try the Joslyn Art Museum, 220 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska, 68102,
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http://www.joslyn.org/permcol/west/pages/bodmer2.html
If what you seek isn't there they may know what other places might have his
work.
"Karl Bodmer produced a large body of drawings and watercolors descriptive
of his travels in North America in 1832-34 with the German naturalist
Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. Most of these works are now owned by
Joslyn Art Museum and, along with Maximilian's hand-written journals and
related materials, form the renowned Maximilian-Bodmer Collection."
Dan W.
>In his book _Across the Wide Missouri_ (1947), Bernard DeVoto refers to the
>purchase by "a New York Museum in 1868" of paintings of American indians by
>Karl Bodmer, a famous artist of the early American West. The book provides
>no further details.
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>Does anyone have a list of museums in the state that were active in 1868, and
>which ones might have been likely to be collecting material like this?
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>Thank you.
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>Reed Augliere
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