George Catlin
born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
Catlin gave up the law to paint, first as a portraitist in Philadelphia, and from 1830 made a series of journeys west from St Louis to record the peoples of the Plains. On a steamboat trip up the Missouri in 1832 he painted hundreds of portraits and scenes of daily life and landscape. He toured his “Indian Gallery” through the eastern cities and Europe, and his illustrated books made these images widely known.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1826–1833
- Mostly
- Painting, Painting-Miniature
- Courtesy of
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum
