This is Mr. McCracken's compiling the art of the American west. It is some of the greatest art of all time. The expanse, the mystique, the romance and the reality.
Sub title is "Three and a half centuries of life on the great Plains through the eyes of its artists" It is every bit of that!
The Love Western art of the frontier days? McCracken pulls so much of it together .... great volume. This work was re-printed under the title Great Painters and Illustrations of the Old West... in 1988 and neither of these volumes are easy to find anymore. These are in good to very good condition
232 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Originally published, 1952,