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George Catlin

George Catlin (1796 - 1872) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey.  George Catlin is known for Indian genre-figure and portrait painting.

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Born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, George Catlin became the first American artist of stature to visit and depict the Plains Indians on his own volition, and he spent about eight years traveling among the 48 North American Indian tribes including to Alaska.  His sketches and paintings are the first and most important record of land west of the Mississippi River before white settlement.  Historian Robert Taft wrote that ..."it can be said that Catlin was the great publicist" of the upper Missouri region as a result of his trip in 1832. . . "I find Catlin's name the most frequently mentioned in biographical accounts of later artists of the West or for that matter one of the most frequently referred to authorities on the early history of the upper Missouri country." (38)

Catlin also recorded Indians in South America, where he toured from 1852 to 1857, having lost his collection of North American paintings to creditors.  To help him financially and to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14065 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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INTERIOR OF A MANDAN LODGE , 1830-32

George Catlin

Lot 75
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Buffalo Chase, A Surround by the Hidatsa , c. 1832

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BUFFALO CHASE, A SURROUND BY THE HIDATSA , 1830-32

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ONE HORN, HEAD CHIEF OF THE MINICONJOU TRIBE, TETON DAKOTA (WESTERN SIOUX) , 1830-32

George Catlin

Lot 73
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BLACK HAWK, PROMINENT SAUK CHIEF, SAUK AND FOX , 1830-32

George Catlin

Lot 74
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Sioux War Council , 1848

George Catlin

Lot 50
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