William H Truettner

Biographic Data

ID680606
NAMEWilliam H Truettner
GIVEN NAMESWilliam H
FAMILY NAMETruettner
SIGNATURETRUETTNER W H
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS27
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America, 1710–1840

    William H TruettnerBOOKPainting Indians and Building…2010

    The Europeans who first settled North America were endlessly intrigued by the indigenous people they found there; even before the colonials began to record the landscape, they drew and painted Indians. This study offers a new visual perspective on westward expansion through a survey of the major Indian images painted by Euro-American artists before and after the American Revolution. William H. Truettner's accessible readings of paintings by artis…

  • Remembering Roger Stein (1932–2010)

    William H TruettnerARTICLEAmerican Art2010

  • Looking at Art with Lane Faison (1907–2006)

    William H TruettnerARTICLEAmerican Art2007

  • Plains Geometry: Surveying the Path from Savagery to Civilization

    William H TruettnerARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio2003

    Separated by almost fifty years, George Catlin's Mandan Village and William Fuller's Crow Creek Agency show Plains Indians in very different physical circumstances. But the two paintings also reveal that over this interval white attitudes toward Indians had radically changed. That change, the author argues, may be registered more tellingly in the form and structure of each painting than in their respective subjects. Catlin's painting, dominated b…

  • Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory

    W Barksdale Maynard, William H Truettner et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1999

    An examination of images of New England created between 1865 and 1945, demonstrating how these images encoded the values of age and tradition to a nation facing complex cultural issues. It includes discussion of paintings by artists such as Winslow Homer and Marsden Hartley

  • Thomas Cole: Landscape into History; Understanding Thomas Cole Today; Thomas Cole and the Rise of American Landscape Painting

    Bryan J Wolf, William H Truettner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996Cited by: 1

    “Thomas Cole: Landscape into History.” National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Eighth and G Sts., NW, Washington, DC 20560 Get access Bryan J. Wolf Bryan J. Wolf Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 958–962, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945649 Published: 01 December 1996

  • Re-Viewing Cole

    Marie Morgan, Ellwood C Parry et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995

  • Storming the Teocalli-Again: Or, Further Thoughts on Reading History Paintings

    William H TruettnerARTICLEAmerican Art1995

  • Thomas Cole: Landscape into History

    Open AccessWilliam H Truettner, Alan WallachARTICLEThe Art Book1994

  • Thomas Cole: Landscape into History

    Brigitte Bailey, William H Truettner et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994Cited by: 1

    Review of: Thomas Cole: Landscape into History. Edited by William H. Truettner and Alan Wallach. (New Haven: Yale University Press and Washington: National Museum of American Art, 1994. Pp xii, 186. Illustrations. $50.00.)

  • The West As America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920

    Andrew Gulliford, William H TruettnerARTICLEJournal of American History1992Cited by: 6

    The West As America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920." National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 8th and G Sts. NW, Washington, DC 20560 Get access The West As America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920. Ed. by Truettner William H.. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiv + 389 pp. Cloth, $60.00. Paper, $35.00.) Andrew Gulliford Andrew Gulliford Middle Tennessee State University Search…

  • The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920

    Walter C Fleming, William H TruettnerARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1992Cited by: 19

  • The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920

    Brian W Dippie, William H TruettnerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1992

    Journal Article The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 Get access The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920. Edited by Truettner William H.. (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiv + 389 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographies, index. $60.00.) Brian W. Dippie Brian W. Dippie University of Victoria, British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…

  • David C. Huntington, 1922-1990

    William H TruettnerARTICLEAmerican Art1990

  • Reading Images: Southwestern Test Cases

    Open AccessLee Clark Mitchell, Charles C Eldredge et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1986