Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat

In this paper, I show how the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin absorbed Buffalo Bill’s dual cowboy and Indian mythologies from his visits to the Wild West show, which ran alongside the 1889 Paris international exposition. Gauguin brought to the Wild West in Neuilly his own recently-cons...

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Main Author: Nancy Mowll Mathews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2019-05-01
Series:Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/10968