Beautiful Prairie Bluffs, Upper Mississippi
1835-1836
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.6 × 69.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137276
When George Catlin made his first trips up the Missouri River in 1830 and 1832, he was enraptured by the landscape. Though he had worked as a portraitist in Philadelphia and originally intended to paint Native Americans themselves, he felt compelled to depict their prairies, rivers, and hills as well. Catlin wrote: “There is no more beautiful prairie country in the world, than that which is to be…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1835-1836 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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