Author: George Catlin Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton ISBN: 9780393052176 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 294
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Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.
Author: Benita Eisler Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 039324086X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 432
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The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Author: George Catlin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indians in art Languages : en Pages :
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The exhibition, George Catlin and His Indian Gallery, showcases more than 400 artworks from one of the most important collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Catlin's original Indian Gallery.
Author: Richard Worth Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317469909 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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First Published in 2009. This book brings together the work of George Catlin's illustrations and observations of the American Indian tribes, lands, people and way of living, and peoples, initially exhibited in New York city in September 1837
Author: George Catlin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Indians in art Languages : en Pages : 200
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George Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvania-born artist, writer and showman whose portraits of Native Americans are among the most important representation of indigenous peoples ever made.
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