Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe (1832) by George Catlin (Smithsonian American Art Museum) Benita Eisler’s biography, The Red Man’s Bones: George Catlin, Artist and ...

George Catlin set out to reach "every tribe ... Dressing Buffalo Meat and Robes (detail) is from 1832. Smithsonian American Art Museum; Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr. Catlin, who is accused ...

George Catlin was an American artist known for his paintings of Native American culture during the early 19th century. Catlin’s primary aim was to document the tribes and landscapes of the frontier ...

George Catlin lived in a troubling ... in Western clothing he's made to look ridiculous. Catlin also tried his hand at landscape and genre paintings but in comparison to his portraits they appear ...

Our object is a man, part artist, part adventurer, part showman, part idealist, the product of another age. George Catlin doesn ... break all ties), in March 1832 Catlin was back in the West ...

George Catlin’s painting of ‘Buffalo Bull ... wealthy citizens and start painting native people,” Lokuta said. By 1832 the painter had traveled to the mouth of the Yellowstone River and ...

George Catlin, Back View of Mandan Village, Showing the Cemetery,1832, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.392 By the 1890s, "The U.S ...

In 1832, at the height of ... too close for his review of the George Catlin exhibit at the Renwick. Like one who stands too close to a Georges Seurat painting and complains about seeing only ...

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 ...

A major exhibit of George Catlin's Indian paintings is on display at the Renwick Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. George Catlin is considered one of the preeminent ...

George Catlin started out as an attorney, but his love of painting took preference over ... In the spring of 1832, Catlin went to St. Louis and convinced Pierre Chouteau and John F.

Survey the broad career of early 19th century lawyer-turned-artist George Catlin. Catlin gained notoriety ... to travel up the Missouri River. And in 1832, he boarded the aptly-named steamer ...