General & Miscellaneous American Art, Frescoes & Murals, Professions & Pastimes in Art, Landscapes & Places in Art, Art of the American West
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Overview
In 1957 Carl Roters, an art professor at Syracuse U. in New York, won the commission to paint two murals, totaling 80-feet in length, for the dining room of the Jackson Lake Lodge that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was building for tourists visiting Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The murals depict an annual celebratory event of the early 19th-century, the 1837 Rendezvous, when the American Fur Company came to purchase pelts from trappers and to sell them supplies. The Burwens (California venture capitalists and philanthropists, they were friends with the late artist) tell the story of the murals' creation, the history of the Rendezvous, and its protagonists in this oversized (13.25x12.25) volume, which is illustrated with one- and two-page, and some fold-out plates of the mural, studies, historic photos, maps and examples of other Carl Roters paintings. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
June 1, 2004
Publisher
Venture Development Group
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780974803005