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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Driesbach, Janice Tolhurst.
Imprint:	Oakland, Calif. : Oakland Museum of California ; Sacramento, Calif. : Crocker Art Museum ; Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1998.
Description:	xv, 148 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Art, American -- California -- Exhibitions. Art, Modern -- 19th century -- California -- Exhibitions. Gold mines and mining in art. Gold mines and mining in art. Art, American. Gold mines and mining. California -- Gold discoveries -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions. California. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition, pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3154190

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Other authors / contributors:	Jones, Harvey. Holland, Katherine Church. Oakland Museum. Crocker Art Museum. National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
ISBN:	0520214315 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520214323 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Catalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Calif., Jan. 24-May 31, 1998; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif., June 21-Sept. 13, 1998; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 1998- Mar. 7, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Stephen C. McGough and Dennis M. Power
Acknowledgments / Harvey L. Jones, Janice T. Driesbach and Katherine C. Holland
Map of the Gold Country
Introduction: The Lure of Gold / Janice T. Driesbach
First in the Field: Thomas A. Ayres and E. Hall Martin / Janice T. Driesbach and Harvey L. Jones
Scenes of Mining Life: John Prendergast, Augusto Ferran, William McIlvaine, W. Taber, William Birch McMurtrie, Harrison Eastman, Samuel Stillman Osgood, A. G., John Henry Dunnel, Washington F. Friend, John Woodhouse Audubon, Francis Samuel Marryat, and E. Godchaux / Janice T. Driesbach
Portrait Painter to the Elite: William Smith Jewett / Janice T. Driesbach
The Hessian Party: Charles Christian Nahl, Arthur Nahl, and August Wenderoth / Harvey L. Jones
Souvenirs of the Mother Lode: Ernest Narjot and George Henry Burgess / Harvey L. Jones
Mining the Picturesque: A. D. O. Browere / Janice T. Driesbach
In the Wake of the Gold Rush: Frederick A. Butman, Alexander Edouart, and George Tirrell / Janice T. Driesbach
Sentiment and Nostalgia: Charles Christian Nahl, Ernest Narjot, George Henry Burgess, Henry Bacon, and Rufus Wright / Harvey L. Jones
Biographies of the Artists / Katherine Church Holland.

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