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George Catlin

[American Painter, 1796-1872]

• Subject matter:  Specializes in Portraits/the American West.
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Original works by George Catlin available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fire in a Missouri Meadow and a Party of Sioux Indians Escaping from It, 1871

George Catlin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Clara Bartlet Gregory (Mrs. George Catlin), ca.1830
Portrait of a Gentleman, ca.1824

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  

George Catlin at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
294 works by George Catlin

George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Exhibition: George Catlin's Indian Gallery

George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database

George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Educational exhibit: Campfire Stories with George Catlin

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Illustration from Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio

Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Shooting Flamingoes

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Buffalo Hunt on Snow Shoes
The Bear Dance (Sioux)
, 1847

McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec   NEW!

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Buffalo Dance, lithograph, 1845

Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska

Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Buffalo Hunt (image 14)

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
4 paintings

George Catlin at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe, 1832

New-York Historical Society
General Winfield Scott, ca.1835

Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Breaking Down the Wild Horse

Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Mandan Indians

George Catlin at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Selections from the George Catlin Papers

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

University of Maine Museum of Art
Joc-O-Sot The Walking Bear, a Sauk Chief from the Upper Missouri, lithograph, 1844

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Exhibition: George Catlin: The Medicine Painter

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Ba-da-ah-chon-du (He Who Outjumps All), a Crow Chief on Horseback, ca.1865-70

Virtual Museum of Canada
Approaching buffalo under white wolf skins, 1846-48
Comanche village, 1834-35

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
George Catlin in the Art Renewal Center

CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

The Athenaeum  
12 works online by Catlin

 
Other Web Sites:
University of California
3 paintings online

University of Virginia Digital Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum George Catlin Indian Paintings

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on George Catlin
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The George Catlin papers online

  
 
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