Austin, Texas.- The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas is pleased to present “Go West! Representations of the American Frontier” on view at the museum from January 14th through September 23rd 2012. The focus of the exhibition is on the western art works from the celebrated C.R. Smith Collection (donated to the museum in 1970) and highlight the lifestyle and landscape of the Pioneering West. The exhibition will explore the pioneering American West as both a physical terrain and an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche. “Go West!” will also provide a Western counterpart to the “American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting” exhibition which opens at the museum on February 26th. “Go West!” features paintings, sculptures and works on paper made in, and about, the American West by Henry Farny, Charles Russell, Maynard Dixon, and other artists from the Blanton’s celebrated C.R. Smith Collection of Art of the American West, in the largest installation of this collection in over a decade.