Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
Start date: Saturday, September 20, 2008
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, January 11, 2009
Embark on a captivating visual adventure in this special exhibition of paintings and drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874), the first American artist to journey into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. See his first-hand depictions of the Lakota, Shoshone, and Nez Perces he encountered, and meet the last of the true fur trappers and traders of the nineteenth-century American West.
