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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
George Catlin's American Buffalo
Author: Adam Duncan Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937311967
Category : American bison in art
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) journeyed west five times in the 1830s, traversing the Great Plains and visiting more than 140 American Indian tribes. Convinced that westward expansion from settlers spelled certain disaster for native peoples, Catlin traveled the frontier to paint landscapes and portraits of native tribes, to document their lives and customs before (as he feared) they vanished. He produced hundred of canvases, which he called his Indian Gallery. Ambitious in scope, and filled with color and closely observed detail, the Indian Gallery remains one of the wonders of the nineteenth century. In many of his paintings, Catlin recorded the massive herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains; in chronicling the lifeways of Plains Indian cultures, he captured the central importance of the buffalo in their daily lives, from food and shelter to ceremony and naming. This book presents forty original Catlin paintings from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The author explores the artist's representation of the close relationship between Native Americans and the buffalo. Using Catlin's own writings, the author also considers the artist's role as an early proponent of wilderness conservation and the national park idea, and how that advocacy remains relevant today -- to the Great Plains, the buffalo, and land use.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937311967
Category : American bison in art
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) journeyed west five times in the 1830s, traversing the Great Plains and visiting more than 140 American Indian tribes. Convinced that westward expansion from settlers spelled certain disaster for native peoples, Catlin traveled the frontier to paint landscapes and portraits of native tribes, to document their lives and customs before (as he feared) they vanished. He produced hundred of canvases, which he called his Indian Gallery. Ambitious in scope, and filled with color and closely observed detail, the Indian Gallery remains one of the wonders of the nineteenth century. In many of his paintings, Catlin recorded the massive herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains; in chronicling the lifeways of Plains Indian cultures, he captured the central importance of the buffalo in their daily lives, from food and shelter to ceremony and naming. This book presents forty original Catlin paintings from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The author explores the artist's representation of the close relationship between Native Americans and the buffalo. Using Catlin's own writings, the author also considers the artist's role as an early proponent of wilderness conservation and the national park idea, and how that advocacy remains relevant today -- to the Great Plains, the buffalo, and land use.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians
Author: George Catlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
North American Indians
Author: George Catlin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142437506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142437506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together... constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.” A one-volume edition of Catlin's journals Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin's incomparable paintings
Vanishing America
Author: Miles A. Powell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: A Nation's Park, Containing Man and Beast -- Chapter 1. Surviving Progress -- Chapter 2. Preserving the Frontier -- Chapter 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- Chapter 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- Chapter 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue: De-Extinction -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: A Nation's Park, Containing Man and Beast -- Chapter 1. Surviving Progress -- Chapter 2. Preserving the Frontier -- Chapter 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- Chapter 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- Chapter 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue: De-Extinction -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
American Paintings
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher: Washington : National Gallery of Art
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Washington : National Gallery of Art
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description