All George Catlin's oil paintings
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58339 Ah yaw ne tak oar ron Ah yaw ne tak oar ron Ah-yaw-ne-tak-oar-ron
3196 Ambush for Flamingoes Ambush for Flamingoes c1857 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
50922 Black hawk,Sac Chief Black hawk,Sac Chief mk217
3195 Buffalo Bull : A Grand Pawnee Warrior Buffalo Bull : A Grand Pawnee Warrior 1832 National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
45356 Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat Oberhauptling des Blutstammes Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat Oberhauptling des Blutstammes mk181 1832 Ol auf Leinwand,auf Aluminium aufgezogen 73.7x60.9cm
3197 Buffalo Bulls Fighting in Running Season-Upper Missouri Buffalo Bulls Fighting in Running Season-Upper Missouri 1837-39 National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
31885 Buffalo Chase on the Upper Missouri Buffalo Chase on the Upper Missouri mk77 Oil on canvas 25 3/4x32in
45955 Buffalo Chase Over Prairie bark Buffalo Chase Over Prairie bark mk178 1832/33 oil on linen 61x74cm
38342 Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances mk136 Oil on canvas 1832-33
50925 Catching wild horses Catching wild horses mk217
50532 Cloudy Cloudy mk212 Oil on canvas 71.1x58.1cm
27966 Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows 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)
30696 Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows Comanche Indians Chasing Buffalo with Lances and Bows mk68 Oil on canvas Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum 1846-1848
41436 Crow Chief Crow Chief mk162 c.1850 oil o nboard 15x21
89424 Five Points Five Points 1827(1827) Medium oil cyf
74271 Fort Union 1832 Crow-Apsaalooke oil painting Fort Union 1832 Crow-Apsaalooke oil painting George Catlin He-ra-te-a, a Brave, Fort Union 1832 Crow/Apsaalooke oil painting 29 x 24 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum Described by Catlin as "a brave, wrapped in his robe, and his hair reaching to the ground; his spear in his hand, and bow and quiver slung" cjr
3194 Indian Boy Indian Boy   
50926 Indian Tropp Indian Tropp mk217
90370 Las cataratas de San Antonio Las cataratas de San Antonio 1871(1871) Medium oil on cardboard Dimensions 46 x 63.5 cm (18.1 x 25 in) cjr
41432 Minnetarree Village Seen Miles above the Mandans on the Bank of the Knife River Minnetarree Village Seen Miles above the Mandans on the Bank of the Knife River mk162 c.1855-1870 Oil on paper 17x24
30684 Niagara Falls Niagara Falls mk68 Oil on canvas Washington, Smithsonian Americn Art Museum 1827-1828 USA
50984 Notch-EE-Nin-Ga son of white cloud Notch-EE-Nin-Ga son of white cloud mk217
45358 Pigeon-s Egg Head auf dem Weg nach Washington und bei Seiner Ruckkehr Pigeon-s Egg Head auf dem Weg nach Washington und bei Seiner Ruckkehr mk181 1837-39 Ol auf Leinwand,auf Aluminium aufgezogen 73.6x60.9cm
88493 portrait of Osceola portrait of Osceola Oil on canvas 1838 78.4 x 65.6 cm. cjr
41433 Primitive Sailing by the Winnebago indians Primitive Sailing by the Winnebago indians mk162 upper Mississippi c.1855-1870 Oil on paper 18x24
41434 Rainmaking,Mandan Rainmaking,Mandan mk162 c.1855-1870 Oil on paper 18x24
50923 Sha-KO-KA, Mandan Girl Sha-KO-KA, Mandan Girl mk217
38341 Sha-ko-ka,Mint,a Pretty Girl Sha-ko-ka,Mint,a Pretty Girl mk136 Oil on canvas 1832
38340 Stu-mick-o-sucks,Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat,Head Chief,Blood Tribe Stu-mick-o-sucks,Buffalo Bull-s Back Fat,Head Chief,Blood Tribe mk136 Oil on canvas 1832
3198 The Dakota Chief : One Horn The Dakota Chief : One Horn 1832
52532 The Last Race, Mandan O-Kee-Pa Ceremony The Last Race, Mandan O-Kee-Pa Ceremony 1832 Oil on canvas mounted on aluminium, 59 x 71 cm
58338 The White Cloud The White Cloud The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas
50924 Wah-ro-Nee-Sah,Oto Chief Wah-ro-Nee-Sah,Oto Chief mk217
3199 War Dance War Dance   
41435 Wild Horses at Play Wild Horses at Play mk162 c.1855-1870 Oil on paper 18x25
82577 William Clark painting William Clark painting Oil on canvas portrait of William Clark (of the Lewis and Clark Expedition) as governor of the Missouri Territory; original size without frame 72.4x59.7 cm. cjr
50983 Win-pan-to-mee,The white weasel Win-pan-to-mee,The white weasel mk217
George Catlin
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. . Related Artists to : | Francesco Brina | Pieter van der Werff | Daret, Jean | Frank Buscher | Edgard Farasijn |