Although known primarily for his illustrations, murals, and portraits, Charles Banks Wilson things of himself chiefly as a lithographer. "Lithography," he says, "is what made an artist of me." The 118 lithographs collected here, each reproduced from an original print in the artist's own collection, represent fifty years of experience in the medium.

True to the American regionalist tradition that influenced him, Wilson has used his own surroundings as subject matter, producing an intensely personal record of his own time and place-an Oklahoma of varied landscapes and of farmers,...

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied a German naturalist and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832 34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors designed to illustrate Maximilian s journals now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems...