Captain Seth Eastman’s Journey with a Sketchbook: New Orleans and the Gulf

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Apr 5 2018 - Jul 1 2018

McNay Art Museum

San Antonio, TX

This second of four exhibitions devoted to one of the McNay’s historic gems—the sketchbook kept by Captain Seth Eastman (1808–1875) during his trip to Texas in 1848 and 1849—follows the artist from Vicksburg to Natchez, Mississippi, and from New Orleans to the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana. Highlights of this leg of the journey are views of sugar plantations, detailed studies of New Orleans’s architecture and riverbank, and a group of masterful drawings of oceangoing sailing ships at anchor in the mirrorlike waters of the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Works on Paper
  • American
  • 19th Century
  • Seth Eastman

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