# Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow, in George Catlin

George Catlin painted this in 1832-1833, aged about 36. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> “The American bison, or .  .

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1832-1833
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 24 x 29 in. (60.9 x 73.7 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1985.66.407
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[George Catlin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

3 works in the collection.

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