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
Analyses that cite or discuss George Catlin — showing 2 of the most recent matches.
George Catlin in the Lewis & Clark Journal Record
A Note on SourcesGeorge Catlin (1796–1872) is not mentioned in any entry of the Lewis and Clark journals. The dataset underlying this…
Karl Bodmer: A Note on Absence from the Lewis & Clark Journals
OverviewThis biographical synthesis is unusual because it must begin with a clarification: Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), the Swiss-born painter whose watercolors and aquatints…
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