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6 unusual facts about George Catlin


Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

During the late 1840s he became aware of the Americas while attending a George Catlin exhibition in Paris.

Assiniboine people

Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th-century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin.

Fort Gibson

The artist George Catlin traveled with the dragoons and made numerous studies.

Henry Leavenworth

The artist George Catlin was also in this expedition, and wrote of Leavenworth's death.

Preston, Texas

George Catlin made some of his famous Indian paintings from this camp.

Salvage ethnography

Photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was preceded by painter George Catlin (1796–1872) in attempting to capture indigenous North American traditions that they believed to be disappearing.


1872 in art

December 23 - George Catlin - American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)

Catlinite

The term Catlinite came into use after the American painter George Catlin visited the quarries in Minnesota in 1835; but it was Philander Prescott who first wrote about the rock in 1832, noting that evidence indicated that American Indians had been using the quarries since at least as far back as 1637.

Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site

George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, and the German Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied all visited the site and stayed the winter of 1832-1833.

Gustav Sohon

Sohon's artistic abilities place him the same league with such other, better-known Western artists as George Catlin, Paul Kane, and Karl Bodmer.

History of Montana

Images of Assiniboine people were painted by such 19th century artists as Karl Bodmer and George Catlin.

Mato-tope

Four Bears was a favorite subject of artists, painted by George Catlin and Karl Bodmer.


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