Floyd's Grave, Where Lewis and Clark Buried Sergeant Floyd in 1804
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.5 × 36.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136791
George Catlin’s view of a bluff some twelve hundred miles above St. Louis captures the vast scale of a continent that, in the 1830s, was only beginning to be settled by white Americans. The artist swept bright green paint across the foreground to suggest the brilliant glow of spring, and spotted the hillside with tiny figures that lead the eye upward. The thinly painted line at the top of the blu…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1832 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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