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View all 31 artworks. George Catlin lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of American Realism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
George Catlin. Public Domain. Quick Facts. Significance: Artist who painted over 400 images of American Indians and brought fame to the pipestone quarries with his artwork. Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Date of Birth: July 26, 1796. Place of Death: Jersey City, NJ. Date of Death: December 23, 1872. Place of Burial: New York City, NY.
Sep 5, 2002 · George Catlin (1796–1872), a lawyer turned painter, decided in the 1820s that he would make it his life's work to record the life and culture of American Indians living on the Plains. In 1830, Catlin visited Gen. William Clark, governor of the Missouri Territory, superintendent of Indian affairs in St. Louis and famous co-leader of the 1804 ...
George Catlin’s Obsession. An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. asks: Did his work exploit or advance the American Indian?
Selections from the George Catlin Papers. This small collection of George Catlin papers came to the Smithsonian Institution in 1879 with Catlin’s “Indian Gallery,” his famous paintings from life of Native Americans completed between 1830 and 1836.
Dec 6, 2023 · A dignified portrayal. Catlin met The White Cloud, not in the U.S., but in Victorian London, when the Indigenous chief and his family were touring Europe as part of P.T. Barnum’s traveling circus from 1843 to 1845.
Home. / Exhibitions. / Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. / Online Gallery for Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. George Catlin’s Máh-to-tóh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief, in Full Dress. Meet the Artists of Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
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