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George Catlin
1794–1872 · American
- Born
- 1794 · Wilkes-Barre
- Died
- 1872 · Jersey City
815 works in the Collect24 Registry
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George Catlin was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, specializing in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. His early work included engravings of sites along the Erie Canal, some of which appeared in Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir in 1825.
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George Catlin ( KAT-lin; July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) 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. 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.
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Selected registered works by George Catlin
Selected from 815 works by George Catlin in the Collect24 Registry.
George Catlin
Fort Union, Mouth of the Yellowstone River, 2000 Miles above St. Louis, 1832
oil on canvas
28.5 × 36.6 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140358
George Catlin
Distant View of the Mandan Village, 1832
oil on canvas
28.5 × 36.7 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140348
George Catlin
Os-ce-o-lá, The Black Drink, a Warrior of Great Distinction, 1838
oil on canvas
78.4 × 65.6 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140337
George Catlin
Tsee-moúnt, Great Wonder, Carrying Her Baby in Her Robe, 1832
oil on canvas
73.7 × 60.9 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140338
George Catlin
Wos-cóm-mun, Busy Man, a Brave, 1832
oil on canvas
73.7 × 60.9 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140335
George Catlin
Theodore Burr Catlin, in Indian Costume, 1840-1841
oil on canvas
127.3 × 101.7 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140183
George Catlin
Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1825-1830
oil on canvas
50.5 × 35.6 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-140167
George Catlin
Shoo-de-gá-cha, The Smoke, Chief of the Tribe, 1832
oil on canvas
73.7 × 60.9 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-138950
George Catlin
Assiniboine Indians Pursuing Buffalo on Snowshoes, 1846-1848
oil on canvas
49.6 × 70 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-138949
George Catlin
I-an-be-w'ah-dick, Male Caribou, a Brave, 1836
oil on canvas
73.7 × 60.9 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-138947
George Catlin
Mandan Scalping an Enemy, 1835-1837
oil on canvas
49.6 × 70 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-138945
George Catlin
O-tá-wah, The Ottaway, a Warrior, 1835
oil on canvas
73.7 × 60.9 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
C24-138944
Museums and collections
Where works by George Catlin are registered
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
460 works
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
351 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
1 work
- Department of Paintings of the Louvre
France
1 work
- Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft
Germany
1 work
- National Portrait Gallery
Washington, D.C., United States
1 work
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