Picturesque Bluffs above Prairie du Chien
1835-1836
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.7 × 70 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-138517
In addition to portraits of Native Americans, George Catlin captured images of the western landscape, and recorded his responses to the West’s remarkable beauty in his travel account Letters and Notes. “There is a something that fills and feeds the mind of an enthusiastic man,” Catlin wrote, “when he is thrown upon natural resources, amidst the rude untouched scenes of nature, which cannot be des…
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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