George Catlin Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat Oberhauptling des Blutstammes Painting ID:: 45356 new16/George Catlin-466469.jpg
Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat Oberhauptling des Blutstammes mk181
1832
Ol auf Leinwand,auf Aluminium aufgezogen
73.7x60.9cm
George Catlin Indian Boy Painting ID:: 3194 George Catlin1.jpg
Indian Boy
George Catlin Buffalo Bull : A Grand Pawnee Warrior Painting ID:: 3195 George Catlin2.jpg
Buffalo Bull : A Grand Pawnee Warrior 1832
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
George Catlin Ambush for Flamingoes Painting ID:: 3196 George Catlin3.jpg
Ambush for Flamingoes c1857
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
George Catlin Buffalo Bulls Fighting in Running Season-Upper Missouri Painting ID:: 3197 George Catlin4.jpg
Buffalo Bulls Fighting in Running Season-Upper Missouri 1837-39
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
George Catlin The Dakota Chief : One Horn Painting ID:: 3198 George Catlin5.jpg
The Dakota Chief : One Horn 1832
George Catlin War Dance Painting ID:: 3199 George Catlin6.jpg
War Dance
George Catlin Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows Painting ID:: 27966 new3/George Catlin-999383.jpg
Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows 1846-8
oil on canvas 49.8 x 70.1 cm (19 5/8 x 27 5/8 in)
National Museum of American Art,Washington DC (mk63)
George Catlin Niagara Falls Painting ID:: 30684 new4/George Catlin-455725.jpg
Niagara Falls mk68
Oil on canvas
Washington,
Smithsonian Americn Art Museum
1827-1828
USA
George Catlin Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows Painting ID:: 30696 new4/George Catlin-583344.jpg
Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows mk68
Oil on canvas
Washington,
Smithsonian American Art Museum
1846-1848
George Catlin Buffalo Chase on the Upper Missouri Painting ID:: 31885 new4/George Catlin-238363.jpg
Buffalo Chase on the Upper Missouri mk77
Oil on canvas
25 3/4x32in
George Catlin Stu-mick-o-sucks,Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat,Head Chief,Blood Tribe Painting ID:: 38340 new11/George Catlin-676945.jpg
Stu-mick-o-sucks,Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat,Head Chief,Blood Tribe mk136
Oil on canvas
1832
George Catlin Sha-ko-ka,Mint,a Pretty Girl Painting ID:: 38341 new11/George Catlin-797679.jpg
Sha-ko-ka,Mint,a Pretty Girl mk136
Oil on canvas
1832
George Catlin Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances Painting ID:: 38342 new11/George Catlin-632664.jpg
Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances mk136
Oil on canvas
1832-33
George Catlin Minnetarree Village Seen Miles above the Mandans on the Bank of the Knife River Painting ID:: 41432 new16/George Catlin-699649.jpg
Minnetarree Village Seen Miles above the Mandans on the Bank of the Knife River mk162
c.1855-1870
Oil on paper
17x24
George Catlin Primitive Sailing by the Winnebago indians Painting ID:: 41433 new16/George Catlin-237525.jpg
Primitive Sailing by the Winnebago indians mk162
upper Mississippi
c.1855-1870
Oil on paper
18x24
George Catlin Rainmaking,Mandan Painting ID:: 41434 new16/George Catlin-635597.jpg
Rainmaking,Mandan mk162
c.1855-1870
Oil on paper
18x24
George Catlin Wild Horses at Play Painting ID:: 41435 new16/George Catlin-393545.jpg
Wild Horses at Play mk162
c.1855-1870
Oil on paper
18x25
George Catlin Crow Chief Painting ID:: 41436 new16/George Catlin-576656.jpg
Crow Chief mk162
c.1850
oil o nboard
15x21
George Catlin Buffalo Chase Over Prairie bark Painting ID:: 45955 new17/George Catlin-954683.jpg
Buffalo Chase Over Prairie bark mk178
1832/33
oil on linen
61x74cm
George Catlin Cloudy Painting ID:: 50532 new18/George Catlin-592245.jpg
Cloudy mk212
Oil on canvas
71.1x58.1cm
George Catlin Black hawk,Sac Chief Painting ID:: 50922 new18/George Catlin-439499.jpg
Black hawk,Sac Chief mk217
George Catlin Sha-KO-KA, Mandan Girl Painting ID:: 50923 new18/George Catlin-323956.jpg
Sha-KO-KA, Mandan Girl mk217
George Catlin Wah-ro-Nee-Sah,Oto Chief Painting ID:: 50924 new18/George Catlin-355239.jpg
Wah-ro-Nee-Sah,Oto Chief mk217
George Catlin Catching wild horses Painting ID:: 50925 new18/George Catlin-386959.jpg
Catching wild horses mk217
George Catlin Indian Tropp Painting ID:: 50926 new18/George Catlin-892457.jpg
Indian Tropp mk217
George Catlin Win-pan-to-mee,The white weasel Painting ID:: 50983 new18/George Catlin-529694.jpg
Win-pan-to-mee,The white weasel mk217
George Catlin Notch-EE-Nin-Ga son of white cloud Painting ID:: 50984 new18/George Catlin-466362.jpg
Notch-EE-Nin-Ga son of white cloud mk217
George Catlin The Last Race, Mandan O-Kee-Pa Ceremony Painting ID:: 52532 new19/George Catlin-537695.jpg
The Last Race, Mandan O-Kee-Pa Ceremony 1832 Oil on canvas mounted on aluminium, 59 x 71 cm
1796-1872
George Catlin Galleries
Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Following a brief career as a lawyer, he 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 people.
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 Ft Union, where he spent several weeks among indigenous people still relatively untouched by European civilization. He visited eighteen tribes, including the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the south and the Mandan, 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. Later trips along the Arkansas, Red and Mississippi rivers as well as visits to Florida and the Great Lakes resulted in over 500 paintings and a substantial collection of artifacts.
When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled these 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. Soon afterwards he began a lifelong effort to sell his collection to the U.S. government. The touring Indian Gallery did not attract the paying public Catlin needed to stay financially sound, and Congress rejected his initial petition to purchase the works, so in 1839 Catlin took his collection across the Atlantic for a tour of European capitals.
Catlin the showman and entrepreneur initially attracted crowds to his Indian Gallery in London, Brussels, and Paris. The French critic Charles Baudelaire remarked on Catlin??s paintings, ??M. Catlin has captured the proud, free character and noble expression of these splendid fellows in a masterly way.??
Catlin??s dream was to sell his Indian Gallery to the U.S. government so that his life??s work would be preserved intact. His continued attempts to persuade various officials in Washington, D.C. failed. He was forced to sell the original Indian Gallery, now 607 paintings, due to personal debts in 1852. Industrialist Joseph Harrison took possession of the paintings and artifacts, which he stored in a factory in Philadelphia, as security. Catlin spent the last 20 years of his life trying to re-create his collection. This second collection of paintings is known as the "Cartoon Collection" since the works are based on the outlines he drew of the works from the 1830s.
In 1841 Catlin published Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, in two volumes, with about 300 engravings. Three years later he published 25 plates, entitled Catlin??s North American Indian Portfolio, and, in 1848, Eight Years?? Travels and Residence in Europe. From 1852 to 1857 he traveled through South and Central America and later returned for further exploration in the Far West. The record of these later years is contained in Last Rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes (1868) and My Life among the Indians (ed. by N. G. Humphreys, 1909). In 1872, Catlin traveled to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian. Until his death later that year in Jersey City, New Jersey, Catlin worked in a studio in the Smithsonian ??Castle.?? Harrison??s widow donated the original Indian Gallery??more than 500 works??to the Smithsonian in 1879.
The nearly complete surviving set of Catlin??s first Indian Gallery painted in the 1830s is now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. Some 700 sketches are in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
The accuracy of some of Catlin's observations has been questioned. He claimed to be the first white man to see the Minnesota pipestone quarries, and pipestone was named catlinite. Catlin exaggerated various features of the site, and his boastful account of his visit aroused his critics, who disputed his claim of being the first white man to investigate the quarry. Previous recorded white visitors include the Groselliers and Radisson, Father Louis Hennepin, Baron LaHonton and others. Lewis and Clark noted the pipestone quarry in their journals in 1805. Fur trader Philander Prescott had written another account of the area in 1831.