Os-ce-o-lá, The Black Drink, a Warrior of Great Distinction
1838
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78.4 × 65.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-140337
George Catlin painted Seminole warrior Osceola at Fort Moultrie, near Charleston, South Carolina, in January 1838. The warrior, Catlin wrote, was “commonly called Powell . . .[he] is generally supposed to be a half-breed, the son [grandson] of a white man . . . and a Creek woman . . . I have painted him precisely in the costume, in which he stood for his picture, even to a string and a trinket. H…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1838 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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