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George Catlin
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American painter (1796-1872)
OverviewAI-generated
George Catlin was a male American painter, artist, lawyer, and writer. He worked in the fields of painting, literature, law, and travel, producing works in the realist movement. His artistic output included portrait, landscape, and genre painting. Catlin wrote in English and lived in North Dakota and Oklahoma.
He authored 72 works, including *North American Indians*, *O-Kee-pa*, *Anglo-Saxony and Its Tradition*, *Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians - Volume II*, and *The Story of the Political Philosophers*. His paintings are held in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre and died in Jersey City on December 23, 1872. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. He is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 72
Top works
- 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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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1796-07-26 ) July 26, 1796, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- December 23, 1872 (1872-12-23) (aged 76), Jersey City, New Jersey , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Litchfield Law School
- Occupations
- Lawyer, Painter, Author
- Spouse
- Clara Bartlett Gregory ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1828 ; died 1845 )
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Described at
George Catlin | Missouri Remembers
missouriartists.org →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).
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wilkes-Barre
- Place of death
- Jersey City
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- travel
- Genre
- genre painting
- Movement
- realism
- Image
- William Fisk - George Catlin - Google Art Project.jpg
- Work location
- Oklahoma
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- Commons category
- George Catlin (painter)
- date of death
- 1872-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- George Catlin
- place of burial
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- Commons gallery
- George Catlin
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- has works in the collection
- Renwick Gallery
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- George Catlin
- date of birth
- 1796-01-01
- described at URL
- missouriartists.org/Person/MOREM45
Sources (12)
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to George Catlin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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