# 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._

3 works in the collection.

- [William Wilson](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/william-wilson-si-saam-1980-126-1), George Catlin, ca. 1826. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [Nishnabottana Bluffs, 1070 Miles above St. Louis](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/nishnabottana-bluffs-1070-miles-above-st-louis-si-saam-1985-66-385), George Catlin, 1832. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/dying-buffalo-shot-with-an-arrow-si-saam-1985-66-407), George Catlin, 1832-1833. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.