View on the Upper Mississippi, Beautiful Prairie Bluffs
1835-1836
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.8 × 70.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-138762
George Catlin probably sketched most of the Upper Mississippi River landscapes on his canoe trip from the Falls of St. Anthony to Dubuque in 1835. He mentions frequently that he used pencil and paper to record certain views, and a sketchbook now owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum must have been one that he was carrying at the time. Several consecutive pages of pencil drawings in the SAA…
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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