Re-branding the Wild West

This month, the travelling exhibition Branding the American West: Paintings and Films, 1900-50 heads east to the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia (29 October-5 February 2017). The show features more than 100 works that depictand sometimes challengethe mythologised stereotype of the Wild West, including iconic Hollywood movies, formalist and abstract paintings, and images of cowboys, Native Americans and Pueblo villages. Hermon MacNeils bronze sculpture The Sun Vow (modelled 1898-99, c