Author: George CatlinPublisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Reproductions of Catlin's famous paintings.
The George Catlin Book of American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Reproductions of Catlin's famous paintings.
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
Author: George CatlinPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393052176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
North American Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142437506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
Author: Benita EislerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324086X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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.
Life Among the Indians
Author: George CatlinPublisher: London : Gall and Inglis, [187-?]
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, Volume I
Author: George CatlinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614531X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Volume 1 of the classic account of life among Plains Indians includes fascinating information on ceremonies, rituals, the hunt, warfare, and much more. Total in set: 312 plates.
Last Rambles Amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes
Author: George CatlinPublisher: Edinburgh ; London : Gall & Inglis, [187-]
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Some tribes mentioned: Apache, Aztec, Chinook, Choctaw, Crow, Fernandeno, Kiowa, Klatsop, Mandan, Mohawk, Osage, Pawnee, Seneca, Shoshone, Sioux, Tuscarora, Winnebago.
North American Indian Portfolio
Author: George CatlinPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497934269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1844 Edition.
Catlin's Lament
Author: John HausdoerfferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The first book to probe the conflicted attitudes that shaped and constrained noted painter George Catlin, famous for his 19th century paintings of vanishing Native American culture. Forces readers to rethink their understanding of the artist--despite his advocacy for Native peoples.