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July 22, 2009
Nancy K. Anderson George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings Exh. cat. Washington, DC and Burlington, VT: National Gallery of Art in association with Lund Humphries, 2008. 224 pp.; 110 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781848220065)

Exhibition schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 14, 2008–January 4, 2009; Seattle Museum of Art, February 26–May 24, 2009

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.71

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During the 1880s, George de Forest Brush produced a unique series of paintings of the American Indian. The exhibition George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings, organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Seattle Art Museum, put this series on display, with almost all of Brush’s major Indian paintings shown together for the first time. The paintings are remarkable for their combination of an intense style of French Academic realism and American subject...