The Frontier in Paris: Artists from the American West in the French Capital, 1890–1900

From 1890 to 1900 several artists traveled from the American West to Paris to advance their studies. Coming from the “wild West,” the French capital represented for them the most sophisticated city on earth. Interestingly, they found Paris to be a place of danger and adventure, a frontier of its own...

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Main Author: James R. Swensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2019-05-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10747