Charles Deas & 1840s America December 5, 2010

Explore the decade-long career of Charles Deas, an important early painter of American Indians and frontier life in the American west. This exhibition of nearly 40 works highlights twelve of Deas's most important paintings--some of which have not been publicly displayed for 150 years--and reconstructs the artist's life and career in the 1840s, a period when western imagery held captive the American imagination.