Du-cór-re-a, Chief of the Tribe, and His Family
1830?
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.7 × 60.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137571
This hastily sketched group may have been one of George Catlin's first attempts at Indian portraiture in the West. “The Winnebagoes,” he wrote, “are the remnant of a once powerful and warlike tribe, but are now left in a country where they have neither beasts or men to war with; and are in a most miserable and impoverished condition. The numbers of this tribe do not exceed four thousand; and the …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1830? — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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