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September 10, 2008
Kenneth Haltman Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818–1823 University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 306 pp.; 28 color ills.; 92 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780271029825)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.93

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In Looking Close and Seeing Far, Kenneth Haltman turns our attention to neglected areas of American cultural production with rich results. The book focuses on the art of the Long Expedition (1819–20), the first U.S. exploratory expedition to include professional artists. When Major Stephen Long’s party set off from Pittsburgh for the Rocky Mountains in April 1819 aboard a specially designed steamboat, the scientific team included two artists: Titian Ramsay Peale and Samuel Seymour. Peale,...