A painter of western frontier life, Cassily Adams is best remembered for his epic work, Custer's Last Fight,
9 and 1/2 feet by 16 feet, 5 inches, and completed in 1885. The
copyright to this particular painting was obtained by the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Company, which made and circulated thousands of
reproductions. Because Adams did most of his work for book
publishers who did not credit him, he was a relatively unknown artist
during his lifetime.
He was born in (showing 500 of 2007 characters). |
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