The Cowboy in Art (Used Hardcover) - Ed Ainsworth

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition. The dust jacket shows some wear on the edges. A corner has been cut off the front dust cover flap, possibly to remove the original price. The pages are clean and unmarked. When Cortes landed at Veracruz in 1 5 19, a band of Aztec artists dispatched by Montezuma hastily sketched pictures of a new and terrifying monster that accompanied the Spaniards—a strange four-legged creature with a tail like straws and the body of a man rising from its shoulders. These drawings were the first pictorial representations of a man on horseback created in the New World. Horses spread rapidly throughout South America and ultimately wild hordes invaded Texas and California. The era of the American cowboy was born. Since that time, the cowboy and his horse have inspired thousands of remarkable works of art. In a magnificent pictorial survey, Ed Ainsworth shows the various ways in which this folk hero has been depicted in painting and sculpture from the arriva