George Catlin
Also known as G. Catlin, Geo. Catlin, George Caitlin, George Bruce Catlin, Catlin
American painter (1796-1872)
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- North American Indians
- O-Kee-pa
- Anglo-Saxony and Its Tradition
- Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians - Volume II
- The Story of the Political Philosophers
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George Catlin (/kætlɪn/ KAT-lin; July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.
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1796 births1872 deaths19th-century American lawyers19th-century American male artists19th-century American paintersAmerican frontier paintersAmerican male paintersArtists from Jersey City, New JerseyArtists from PennsylvaniaArtists of the American WestBurials at Green-Wood CemeteryCommons link from Wikidata