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Charles Deas, Long Jakes, “the Rocky Mountain Man,” 1844. Jointly owned by the Denver Art Museum and The Anschutz Collection; purchased in memory of Bob Magness with funds from 1999 Collectors’ Choice, Sharon Magness, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hewit, Carl and Lisa Williams, Estelle Rae Wolf-Flowe Foundation, and the T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Collection by exchange.

Charles Deas and 1840s America
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 29th, 2010 04:47

The Denver Art Museum explores the decade-long career of Charles Deas, an important early painter of American Indians and frontier life in the American west, in the first retrospective of the artist's work, opening August 21. Nearly 45 paintings and works on paper include Deas's most important paintings—some of which have not been publicly displayed for 150 years—which reconstruct the artist's life and career in the 1840s, a period when western imagery held captive the ...

One of the Yosemite images discovered by Rick Norsigian.

Ansel Adams's trust says rediscovered photographs phony

The 65 glass negatives bought for $45 a decade ago at a garage sale by Fresno, California, painter Rick Norsigian are not by Ansel Adams (d. 1984), according to the photographer's ...

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