George Catlin doesn't reside at the Smithsonian ... Catlin, a largely self-taught painter, was the first major white artist to portray the prairie tribes on their own turf.

George Catlin was an American artist known for his paintings of Native American culture ... which he saw in the collection of the established painter Charles Wilson Peale. Setting off in 1830 to St.

George Catlin's c. 1827 fusion of art and cartography ... For 19th-century Americans, water represented both nature and civilization. The painter Robert S. Duncanson, then the nation’s most ...

It is images such as George Catlin’s “Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances” that engages our imagination of the unique relationship between Indigenous peoples and bison. Catlin wrote that he ...