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Charles Deas

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Deas returned to New York in 1848 and expressed a desire to open a gallery of Indian art. Before he could do this he was declared legally insane. While he was institutionalized, his paintings were described as being particularly intense. "One of his wild pictures, representing a black sea, over which
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Deas was most famous while he was still alive. One critic, in 1947, stated that the painter was considered to have "enjoyed more of a reputation during his own lifetime" than currently. Between 1841 and 1848, Deas' regularly exhibited his works in St. Louis at the "Mechanics Fairs." He also shipped
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a figure hung, suspended from a ring, while from the waves a monster was springing, was so horrible, that a sensitive artist fainted at the sight."
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The artist's works are described as expressing "psychological tension, perceived danger, alarm, and flight," epitomized by his painting
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which depicts an Indian and trapper locked in combat while falling to their deaths from a cliff.
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A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior
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Deas died of "apoplexy" (possible stroke) in Bloomingdale Asylum on March 23, 1867.
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in New York soon recognized his work, electing him as an associate member in 1839.
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Baur, John I. H. (Summer 1947). "Unknown American Painters of the 19th Century".
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Izard) Deas (1764–1863), a daughter of the 18th century American politician
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Self portrait of Charles Deas held at the National Academy Museum
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Catlin and his contemporaries : the politics of patronage
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By 1840, he had decided to emulate one of his influences,
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He attempted, and failed, to obtain an appointment to the
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Territory that he became a noted painter of trappers and
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Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography (vol. 2)
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Winnebago with Bear-Claw Necklace and Gun-Stock Club
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Philadelphia
Native Americans
Philadelphia
née
Ralph Izard
South Carolina
Alice De Lancey Izard
United States Military Academy
West Point
National Academy of Design
George Catlin
Wisconsin
American Indians
St. Louis, Missouri
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
American Art Union
Bloomingdale Asylum
Columbia University

St. Louis Mercantile Library
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
National Academy
St. Louis Mercantile Library
Winnebago
St. Louis Mercantile Library
St. Louis Mercantile Library
St. Louis Mercantile Library
Denver Art Museum

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