# Nishnabottana Bluffs, 1070 Miles above St. Louis, in George Catlin

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

From the museum's label:

> George Catlin journeyed up the Missouri River in 1832. “I often landed my skiff,” he recalled, “and mounted the green carpeted bluffs whose soft grassy tops, invited me to recline, where I was at once lost in contemplation. Soul melting scenery that was about me!

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1832
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (28.5 x 36.6 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1985.66.385
- 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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