George Catlin

Catlin, a self-taught artist, came to Missouri in 1830 and made St. Louis his home as he made his travels along the Missouri River. In 1831 he traveled on the Platte River with the American Fur Company, and in 1832 he traveled up the Missouri to Fort Union on the steamboat named Yellowstone. On these trips, he traced parts of the route Lewis and Clark took in the early 19th century. During the five trips he made along the river between 1830 and 1836, he made more than 450 works. The artist also exhibited the paintings in his Indian Gallery in Washington, D.C., in April 1838, in Philadelphia, 1838, and Boston, 1838. The artist’s work may also be seen at the Denver Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, West Point Museum, West Point, N. Y., Yale University Art Gallery, and at many others. George Catlin, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe, Teton Dakota (Western Sioux) , 1830-1832. “George Catlin: Artist File.” Spencer Art Reference Library, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Brian W. Dippie, et al., George Catlin and his Indian Gallery (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2002). George Catlin, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe, Teton Dakota (Western Sioux) , 1830-1832. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Miss May C. Kinney, Ernest C. Kinney and Bradford Wickes, 1945, NPG.70.14. “George Catlin: Artist File.” Spencer Art Reference Library, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Brian W. Dippie, et al., George Catlin and his Indian Gallery (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2002).