Window on the West: Views From the American Frontier June 6, 2007

It's not just the West that you have seen in the movies, and not the stuff of legend, but rather the West as a newly-minted place -- a land of surprise, quick settlement and authentic grandeur, as seen by the artists who personally explored the West and visually documented what they discovered. These 60 paintings from the Arthur J. Phelan Collection were selected to give an historically accurate cross-secton of what really happened in the expansion of the West. They depict the people who moved west from the Mississippi, the land they passed through and chose for their new homes, and the settlements they created.