View on the Wisconsin River, Winnebago Shooting Ducks
1836-1837
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.6 × 70 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136478
In the summer of 1836, George Catlin made his final journey to the West, to visit the sacred Pipestone Quarry in present-day Minnesota, where Plains Indians harvested the red steatite to make their pipe bowls. He journeyed west by steamer from New York through Sault Ste. Marie and Green Bay, paddling down the Wisconsin River, where he sketched this image of Winnebago Indians hunting ducks. Althou…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1836-1837 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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