George Catlin
George Catlin was a self-taught American painter who devoted his career to documenting Native American peoples and their cultures across the Great Plains and Upper Missouri during the 1830s. He produced over 500 paintings of Native individuals and scenes from more than 50 tribes, many of the same peoples encountered by Lewis and Clark three decades earlier. His Indian Gallery remains one of the most significant visual records of pre-reservation Native American life in the West.
Portrait: Public Domain, William Fisk (1849), National Portrait Gallery
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Cross-Narrator Analyses
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Karl Bodmer: A Note on Absence from the Lewis & Clark Journals
Despite his fame as a visual chronicler of the upper Missouri, the Swiss painter Karl Bodmer does not appear in the journals…
George Catlin in the Lewis & Clark Journal Record
George Catlin, the famed painter of Native American life, does not appear in the Lewis and Clark journals — but his later…
