Word: bodmer
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...Alexander Philip Maximilian, naturalist, explorer, and Prince of Wied, decided to make a foray into the little-known Western regions of North America. He took along a young Swiss artist named Karl Bodmer to draw and paint what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best...
...Later Bodmer and Maximilian spent five months at Fort Clark, in what is now North Dakota, where they were introduced to some Minnetaree chiefs by their interpreter, Toussaint Charbonneau. They apparently got friendly enough for the explorers to give one Indian a stovepipe hat. Bodmer's drawings of U.S. Indians were never hasty impressions but bold portraits of individuals, with meticulous notations of their clothing and decorations, their expressions and personalities. Back in Europe, Bodmer made engravings of 81 of his sketches and watercolors to accompany Maximilian's two-volume Travels in the Interior of North America...
...Karl Bodmer lived the remainder of his life in Barbizon, the artists' colony in the forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris, painting and teaching. One of his protégés was Jean François Millet, and as Millet's fame ascended, Bodmer's diminished. Finally, in need of money, Bodmer was forced to sell part of his collection of Millet drawings and paintings. He died in 1893. His legacy of art was bought from Knoedler this summer by the Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha, whose board chairman, John Merriam, is a trustee...