Karl Bodmer
Karl Bodmer was a Swiss-born artist who accompanied Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied on a scientific expedition up the Missouri River in 1832–1834, traveling through the same territory explored by Lewis and Clark. His meticulously detailed watercolors and engravings of Mandan, Hidatsa, and other Northern Plains tribes are considered among the finest artistic records of the American frontier.
Portrait: Public Domain, photograph (1877), Library of Congress
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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…
