Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) 19th Century American Artists Karl Bodmer was only 23 years old when he agreed to accompany the German explorer and naturalist, Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Weid, on a 5,000-mile journey up the Missouri River to document the Plains Indians tribes of North America. Born in Zurich and classically trained in drawing, painting and engraving, Bodmer produced a series of beautiful watercolors of tribal warriors, women and chiefs in full regalia, was parties and the hunt that today are considered to be the finest paintings ever made of an aboriginal culture. They were used as studies for 81 hand-colored aquatint engravings which were published as Travels in the Interior of North America. Bodmer was privileged to see the West in all its pristine glory, before successive waves of settlers irrevocable altered the face of the land and its original inhabitants. His draftsmanship and ethnographic detail were extraordinary. Encampment of the Piekann Indians Mehkskeme-Sukas Tatsicki-Stomick Assiniboin Indians Wahk-Ta-Ge-Li Sih-Chida & Mahchsi Karehde

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