Fine Art of the West

by B. Byron Price

Visually breathtaking, Fine Art of the West brings together the most artistically significant objects created by master craftsmen from the mid-nineteenth century to today. B. Byron Price, a leading expert of Western American art, explores the fascinating origins of these objects in the Old West, as the legacy of Spanish-American craftsmen and the workaday equipment of cowboys. The story continues as he traces their influence upon innovative designers employing them as a basis for a new, vigorous tradition in decorative art.

B. Byron Price is the director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma. He is a former director of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. His books include Imagining the Open Range: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer and Cowboys of the American West.

• Size: 10" x 12"
• Hardcover
• 276 Pages
• 200 Color Photographs, 75 Black and White Photographs
• Published 2004