October 3, 2009—February 14, 2010

Numerous artists have depicted the battles between Euro-Americans and American Indians.   The U. S. Army’s campaigns against American Indians on the Northern Plains are known through paintings, drawings, and chromolithographs. Consequently, there are many depictions in art of “Custer’s Last Stand” and the “Battle at Little Bighorn.” However, without such a dramatic and pivotal battle, artists’ paintings of the U. S. Army on the Southern Plains are less well known.

The exhibition, “Art of the Red River War,” will assemble depictions of the events leading up to and including this particular campaign.  Included among the artists who were drawn to the Red River War are those of national repute such as Frederic Remington, Nick Eggenhofer, W. Herbert Dunton, and Edward Borein, as well as Texas artists such as H. D. Bugbee, Ben Carlton Mead, John Eliot Jenkins, and Olive Vandruff.  This exhibition will be the first of its kind to focus on this particular aspect of the history of the American West.