The George Catlin Book of American Indians

The George Catlin Book of American Indians
Title The George Catlin Book of American Indians PDF eBook
Author George Catlin
Publisher BBS Publishing Corporation
Pages 216
Release 1988
Genre Art
ISBN

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Reproductions of Catlin's famous paintings.

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
Title George Catlin and His Indian Gallery PDF eBook
Author George Catlin
Publisher Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton
Pages 294
Release 2002
Genre Art
ISBN 9780393052176

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Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.

Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians

Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Title Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians PDF eBook
Author George Catlin
Publisher
Pages 436
Release 1841
Genre Indians of North America
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North American Indians

North American Indians
Title North American Indians PDF eBook
Author George Catlin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 564
Release 2004-02-24
Genre History
ISBN 9780142437506

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From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
Title The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman PDF eBook
Author Benita Eisler
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 497
Release 2013-07-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 039324086X

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The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.

Life Among the Indians

Life Among the Indians
Title Life Among the Indians PDF eBook
Author George Catlin
Publisher London : Gall and Inglis, [187-?]
Pages 378
Release 1870
Genre History
ISBN

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Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, Volume I

Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, Volume I
Title Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, Volume I PDF eBook
Author George Catlin
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 388
Release 2012-10-18
Genre History
ISBN 048614531X

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Volume 1 of the classic account of life among Plains Indians includes fascinating information on ceremonies, rituals, the hunt, warfare, and much more. Total in set: 312 plates.