George Catlin
American painter (1796-1872) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 76
George Catlin was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians.
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Self-portrait, aged 28
Catlin's travels in North America between 1830 and 1855
Sha-có-pay, The Six, Chief of the Plains Ojibwa, an 1832 portrait at Fort Union that is now housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Wah-ro-née-sah, The Surrounder, Chief of the Otoe Tribe, an 1832 portrait now housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
A portrait of Clara Bartlett Gregory by Catlin, c. 1830, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.
