Shón-ka, The Dog, Chief of the Bad Arrow Points Band
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.7 × 60.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137321
Little Bear, Steep Wind, and the Dog, who sat for George Catlin during his 1832 Missouri River trip, provided him with a story that dramatized the power of his painterly “medicine.” While Catlin was working on Little Bear’s portrait, a three-quarter view that concealed nearly half his face, the Dog stopped by and observed that Little Bear was “but half a man.” Catlin later described the tragedy s…
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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