His sweeping landscapes, rendered in thick brushstrokes and vivid color, redefined how people around the country viewed the Great Plains. “Sandzén had an enormous influence on the entire art ...

They learned how to manage the landscape ... Great Plains. Blackfeet women were at the center of both traditional ecological knowledge and mythological understanding. Catlin’s iconic painting ...

When the Swedish artist Birger Sandzén arrived in the wheat belt of central Kansas in the early 1890s, the painter saw a vast ...