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| | The Sid Richardson Collection |
 | | Oilmen like Richardson, Amon Carter, Thomas Gilcrease, Frank Phillips and R.W. Norton, themselves part of the western legend of freewheeling enterprise, established through their collections a link to the romantic legends of the Old West. |
 | | While he showed no interest in Western landscapists (Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran) or the pre-Civil war documentarians (George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller, Paul Kane, and Charles Wimar, for example), he did acquire works by such relatively unknown late nineteenth-century artists as Gilbert Gaul, Peter Moran, and Charles F. Browne. |
 | | He had a preference for paintings with action or suspense and collected such works by Charles Schreyvogel, Oscar E. Berninghaus, Frank Tenney Johnson, William R. Leigh and Edwin W. Deming. |
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