Author: George Catlin
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393052176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
Author: George Catlin
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393052176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393052176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Showcases the work of the early-nineteenth-century artist who made four trips into Native American country as part of an ambition to paint each tribe, noting the influence of period belief systems on his work as well as his passionate affection for his subjects.
The George Catlin Book of American Indians
Author: George Catlin
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Reproductions of Catlin's famous paintings.
Publisher: BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Reproductions of Catlin's famous paintings.
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
Author: Benita Eisler
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324086X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324086X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
North American Indian Portfolio
Author: George Catlin
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497934269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1844 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497934269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1844 Edition.
Indian Gallery
Author: Mary Sayre Haverstock
Publisher: New York : Four Winds Press
ISBN:
Category : Artists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
George Catlin painted pictures of Indian tribes during the early 1800's.
Publisher: New York : Four Winds Press
ISBN:
Category : Artists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
George Catlin painted pictures of Indian tribes during the early 1800's.
Life Among the Indians
Author: George Catlin
Publisher: London : Gall and Inglis, [187-?]
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: London : Gall and Inglis, [187-?]
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
George Catlin
Author: George Catlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
George Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvania-born artist, writer and showman whose portraits of Native Americans are among the most important representation of indigenous peoples ever made.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
George Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvania-born artist, writer and showman whose portraits of Native Americans are among the most important representation of indigenous peoples ever made.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George Catlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Shut Your Mouth
Author: George Catlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
George Catlin discusses how closing one's mouth during sleep and day to day will foster improvement in mental and physical condition. This edition contains all of the original illustrations the author made. Walking among and studying various Native American tribes in the 19th century, the author noticed that many of the elders possessed a serene and well-preserved appearance. The young members of the tribe seemed especially healthy, with an innate resistance to certain illnesses and congenital conditions. Seeing the tribe's members sleeping, he noted that they all did so with closed mouths. Catlin pondered whether this habit contributed to the physical vigor of the people, and investigated further. After venturing back to the towns of the Midwest, he attests to witnessing how terrible many people who had practiced mouth breathing throughout life appeared, and became deeply opposed to its practice. This book details how children and young people can be encouraged against mouth breathing, and notes how different the facial countenance appears between mouth breathing people and nose breathers. Today, the notion that mouth breathing promotes physical ugliness or decrepitude is wholly disavowed as an eccentric idea with no basis in fact. However, sleep researchers have demonstrated that breathing with the mouth open while asleep can result in more snoring and thus a lower quality of sleep and therefore health. Overall, one could venture that Catlin's ideas possess a certain merit, even if his book is an exaggeration. Although primarily known today as a painter and traveller who became an emissary of sorts to the Plains tribes, George Catlin was also an enthusiastic if occasional writer. He admired the Native American peoples for their traditions and distinctive appearance, and took to painting them - his marked talent led to their respect for his gifts, and they duly welcomed him with friendship.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
George Catlin discusses how closing one's mouth during sleep and day to day will foster improvement in mental and physical condition. This edition contains all of the original illustrations the author made. Walking among and studying various Native American tribes in the 19th century, the author noticed that many of the elders possessed a serene and well-preserved appearance. The young members of the tribe seemed especially healthy, with an innate resistance to certain illnesses and congenital conditions. Seeing the tribe's members sleeping, he noted that they all did so with closed mouths. Catlin pondered whether this habit contributed to the physical vigor of the people, and investigated further. After venturing back to the towns of the Midwest, he attests to witnessing how terrible many people who had practiced mouth breathing throughout life appeared, and became deeply opposed to its practice. This book details how children and young people can be encouraged against mouth breathing, and notes how different the facial countenance appears between mouth breathing people and nose breathers. Today, the notion that mouth breathing promotes physical ugliness or decrepitude is wholly disavowed as an eccentric idea with no basis in fact. However, sleep researchers have demonstrated that breathing with the mouth open while asleep can result in more snoring and thus a lower quality of sleep and therefore health. Overall, one could venture that Catlin's ideas possess a certain merit, even if his book is an exaggeration. Although primarily known today as a painter and traveller who became an emissary of sorts to the Plains tribes, George Catlin was also an enthusiastic if occasional writer. He admired the Native American peoples for their traditions and distinctive appearance, and took to painting them - his marked talent led to their respect for his gifts, and they duly welcomed him with friendship.
George Catlin's American Buffalo
Author: Adam Duncan Harris
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804328
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Re-examines Catlin's art and his vision of a "nation's park" to protect the buffalo and native American people
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804328
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Re-examines Catlin's art and his vision of a "nation's park" to protect the buffalo and native American people