“In the dead of the winters, which are very long and severely cold in this country, where horses cannot be brought into the chase with any avail, the Indian runs upon the surface of the snow by the aid of his snow shoes, which buoy him up, while the gr
An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. asks: Did his work exploit or advance the American Indian?
George Catlin witnessed Choctaw lacrosse in Indian Territory in 1834, but a year later, at Prairie du Chien in today’s Wisconsin, Catlin saw and recorded the Eastern Sioux/Dakota version of ball-play.
This reproduction is a new, individually printed and proofed, superior quality, giclee* process, fine art print. It is printed on 100% cotton rag acid-free, heavyweight fine art paper with a luxurious textured watercolor paper finish and archival pigment inks to ensure permanence. Image Size: 15 x 12 inches printed on 18 x 13 inch paper to allow ample room for matting and framing The Medicine Man, Performing his Mysteries over a Dying Chief, Blackfoot/Siksika, 1832 George Catlin (1796 – 1872) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.Following a brief career as a lawyer, Catlin produced two major collections of paintings of American Indians and published a series of books chronicling his travels among the native peoples of North, Central and South America. Claiming his interest in America’s 'vanishing race' was sparked by a visiting American Indian delegation in Philadelphia, he set out to record the appearance and customs of America’s native peoples. Catlin began his journey in 1830 when he accompanied General William Clark on a diplomatic mission up the Mississippi River into Native American territory. St. Louis became Catlin’s base of operations for five trips he took between 1830 and 1836, eventually visiting fifty tribes. Two years later he ascended the Missouri River over 3000 km to Fort Union Trading Post, near what is now the North Dakota/Montana border, where he spent several weeks among indigenous people who were still relatively untouched by European civilization. Beginning in 1830 he visited eighteen tribes, including the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the south and the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet to the north. There, at the edge of the frontier, he produced the most vivid and penetrating portraits of his career. During later trips along the Arkansas, Red and Mississippi rivers, as well as visits to Florida and the Great Lakes, he produced more than 500 paintings and gathered a substantial collection of artifacts. When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled the paintings and numerous artifacts into his Indian Gallery, and began delivering public lectures which drew on his personal recollections of life among the American Indians. Catlin traveled with his Indian Gallery to major cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New York. He hung his paintings “salon style”—side by side and one above another—to great effect. Visitors identified each painting by the number on the frame as listed in Catlin’s catalogue. • Reproduction Medium: Fine Art Paper, Archival Pigment Inks • Image Size: 15 x 12 inches (printed on larger 18 x 13 inch paper to allow ample borders for matting and framing) NOTE: The Da Vinci Art Prints watermark on this image is for computer viewing only and of course NOT on the actual print. PayPal only please. Prints ship in a heavy protective cardboard tube. **the giclee process produces a high quality, fine art reproduction from a high-resolution digital file of an image. The file is then printed with a high-resolution photo generation printer on a fine art paper. Most artists and working photographers today use the giclee process to produce reproductions of their original artwork and photographs. As with any original art or fine art reproduction, it is recommended that prints are framed and displayed under glass to prevent color fade or shift over the years.
Dance of the Bear, Catlin George , private collection, USA.
George Catlin probably sketched this image on his Missouri River voyage in 1832, but did not produce a finished painting for several years.
Fine Art Reproduction G.Catlin / Mandan chief with his family by George Catlin. Fine Art Reproduction, Canvas on Stretcher, Framed Picture, Glass Print and Wall Paper.
“The Sioux, like all the others of these western tribes, are fond of bear's meat, and must have good stores of the ‘bear's-grease’ laid in, to oil their long and glossy locks, as well as the surface of their bodies.
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“I have seen a fair exhibition of their archery this day, in a favourite amusement which they call the ‘game of the arrow,’ where the young men who are the most distinguished in this exercise, assemble on the prairie at a little distance from th
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“On the day appointed by the doctors, the villagers are all assembled, and in the midst of the group a kettle is hung over a fire and filled with the green corn, which is well boiled, to be given to the Great Spirit, as a sacrifice necessary to be made
George Catlin participated in a Sioux Indian ceremony of friendship at which a meal of dog meat was the center of the event.
“This tribe [Menominee] living out of the reach of buffaloes, cover themselves with blankets, instead of robes, and wear a profusion of beads and wampum, and other trinkets.” George Catlin probably executed this portrait in Washington in1831.
“The buffalo bull often grows to the enormous weight of 2000 pounds, and shakes a long and shaggy black mane, that falls in great profusion and confusion, over his head and shoulders; and oftentimes falling down quite to the ground.
“Their colour is a dark brown, but changing very much as the season varies from warm to cold; their hair or fur, from its great length in the winter and spring, and exposure to the weather, turning quite light, and almost to a jet black, when the winte
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Native Americans on horseback. Painting by George Catlin , 19th century. Museum of the New World, La Rochelle, France
