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	SAAM: George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
		The exhibition, George Catlin and His Indian Gallery, showcases artworks from one of the most important collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum—George Catlin's original Indian Gallery.
		Determined to record the "manners and customs" of Native Americans, Catlin, a lawyer turned painter, traveled thousands of miles from 1830 to 1836 following the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
		Catlin visited 50 tribes living west of the Mississippi River from present day North Dakota to Oklahoma.
	americanart.si.edu /collections/exhibits/catlin/index.html (118 words)

	George Catlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Catlin (1796 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – December 23, 1872 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.
		Catlin left a law career to paint Native Americans and "to rescue from oblivion their primitive looks and customs." He taught himself painting and painted indians he met in St.
		Catlin formed some of the earliest Wild West Shows in order to highlight the plight of the Native Americans and show their culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Catlin (280 words)

	George Catlin: Artist of the West :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Catlin, once a renowned painter of American Indian tribes, the man once hailed and feted on a triumphal tour of Europe, was found living in a garret apartment, his only company a set of white mice he kept as pets.
		George Catlin told his brother that the cartoons he was busy sketching, coupled with the words he was writing about his experiences, would once more bring him fame and fortune.
		Catlin recalled in his book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841), that he was able to last at Reeve's school, through a "siege with Blackstone and Coke," the major law texts of the time, although his mind was often on other things.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/george_catlin.html (690 words)

	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: George Catlin: The Medicine Painter: Who was George Catlin?
		Catlin's mother and her father, who had fought against Native American allies of the British, were survivors of the Wyoming Valley Massacre of 1773; thereafter, Catlin's mother had briefly been held captive by the Iroquois.
		Catlin himself asked that his work be considered not for its artistic merit, but as a document of a bygone times.
		Catlin remarked, "I had encouraging assurances of its success," and that Daniel Webster declared the artist to have portrayed Native Americans "with more accuracy and truth...than in all the other drawings and representation on the face of the earth," and stated that the preservation of the collection would be an important public act.
	www.vmfa.state.va.us /catlin/who.html (2221 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: CATLIN, GEORGE
		George Catlin, painter and chronicler of American Indians, son of Putnam and Polly (Sutton) Catlin, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on July 26, 1796.
		Catlin's employers, holders of the large tracts of James Reily, took in the Midlands group shortly after the return, and glowing report, of Smith and Barrow.
		Catlin to his first settlement in Texas." The report of Catlin's departure for Texas was premature, however, and in fact a few days later he severed relations with the company in a disagreement concerning compensation.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fca94.html (1322 words)

	GEORGE CATLIN
		Clearly, Catlin recognized the threat westward expansion posed to the Indians and his concern for preserving their native culture was genuine; yet, contrary to his retrospective -- and somewhat self-serving -- narrative, it is highly doubtful that altrui sm was the sole factor motivating the artist's decision to go west.
		Catlin planned to open a museum in which native American costumes and artifacts would be prese rved for posterity, and to that end he assembled an impressive collection that he hoped to put on public view along with his paintings.
		Catlin may have assumed he could repay his creditor with some of the proceeds from this sale, but he failed to realize that after eighteen years of neglect, many of the artifacts and art works stored by Harrison had deteriorated badly and some were virtually worthless.
	www.ibiblio.org /nga/catlin.html (6022 words)

	Arts & Activities: George Catlin and His Indian Gallery - Learning from Exhibitions - Cover Story
		George Catlin and His Indian Gallery is a revival of a spectacular exhibition of international significance first presented one and one-half centuries ago.
		Catlin wrote "a delegation of some 10 or 15 noble and dignified-looking Indians, from the wilds of the 'Far West' suddenly arrived in the city, arrayed and equipped in all their classic beauty...
		Catlin campaigned the federal government to purchase the collection for the nation, but failing on this effort, as well, he took his Gallery across the Atlantic in 1839 for a tour of European capitals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HTZ/is_3_135/ai_114784467 (1286 words)

	Who is George Catlin
		Catlin’s Letters were a colorful assortment of lore and great west tales of Indian life and his own personal interaction with the Native Americans he came into contact with in his travels.
		George Catlin would become known for details that were so exact, the portraits he drew seemed to be just a breath away from life.
		George Catlin became known as a ‘Portrait’ artist, but also left behind paintings such as ‘Buffalo Chase – A surround by the Hidatsa’, an oil on canvas from 1832-1833, depicting the Indians war with a group of buffalo.
	wvwv.essortment.com /whoisgeorgeca_rjdi.htm (838 words)

	SAAM: George Catlin's Indian Gallery
		George Catlin (1796-1872) journeyed west five times in the 1830s to paint the Plains Indians and their way of life.
		Catlin lobbied the U.S. government for patronage throughout his career, hoping Congress would purchase the Indian Gallery as a legacy for future generations.
		Today Catlin's Indian Gallery is recognized as a great cultural treasure, offering rare insight into native cultures and a crucial chapter in American history.
	americanart.si.edu /catlin/highlights.html (343 words)

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		George Catlin’s opus magnum, both richly painted and poetically written, including a collection of artifacts gathered over a lifetime, is not only worthy of any anthropolgist, but illustrates also that Art is the matrix of all the sciences.
		George Catlin was too honest for the society which fostered him, and therefore censored himself when thinking of all those tribes he loved that were being exterminated and where some of his friends, like the Mandan chief, Four Bears, were to die wretched deaths — deaths unworthy of dogs — inflicted by the American Dream.
		George Catlin was still convinced that his Indian Gallery would be purchased by the United States before he died, to bring him financial relief from his poverty.
	www.angelfire.com /sk/syukhtun/catlin2.html (2205 words)

	George Catlin and His Indian Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Catlin was the first artist to record the Plains Indians in their own territories.
		Catlin lobbied the U.S. government for patronage throughout his career, hoping Congress would purchase the Indian Gallery as a legacy for future generations.
		A Philadelphia industrialist paid Catlin's debts and acquired the Indian Gallery, and soon after Catlin's death, the paintings were donated to the Smithsonian.
	www.museumoftheamericanwest.org /explore/exhibits/catlin (415 words)

	George Catlin's Obsession (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today the remarkable chronicle produced by Catlin of the faces and lifestyles of Indians from nearly 50 different American tribes can be seen at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. On view through January 19, 2003.
		Though not the first artist to paint American Indians, Catlin was the first to picture them extensively in their own territories and one of the few to portray them as fellow human beings rather than savages.
		Both heralded and criticized during his lifetime, Catlin was forced to sell his original paintings and artifacts to Joseph Harrison, a Pennsylvania railroad tycoon, in 1852 to pay off his debts.
	smithsonianmag.com /smithsonian/issues02/dec02/catlin.html (476 words)

	George Catlin Became One of the Most Famous Artists in American History
		George Catlin always said his early years were fun.
		George did as his father wished and became a lawyer.
		George Catlin quickly returned home to Philadelphia to raise money for his project.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2006-04-04-voa3.cfm (1329 words)

	Object at Hand - Portraits on the Plains (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Catlin doesn't reside at the Smithsonian — he's been dead for more than a century — but hundreds of his paintings reside in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
		Catlin, a largely self-taught painter, was the first major white artist to portray the prairie tribes on their own turf.
		George Catlin was born at the tail end of the 18th century, in the village of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and moved with his family up the Susquehanna into New York State.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues00/may00/object_may00.html (1601 words)

	George Catlin
		George Catlin was an artist, writer, historian, reporter, explorer, trailblazer, anthropologist, and geologist, crusader, businessman, opportunist and also is considered to be a pioneer in American ethnography (the study of specific cultures).
		George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1796.
		Catlin traveled to St. Louis and became friends with General William Clark, who 25 years earlier, had joined with Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition across the continent in search of all-water route to the Pacific Ocean.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1614.html (835 words)

	Museum of Nebraska Art \| Artists \| George Catlin
		Trained as a lawyer, Catlin gave up that profession to devote his career to painting Indians in their native land and he spent the rest of his life championing their cause.
		Catlin was a self-taught artist who started painting portraits of political figures.
		Catlin was in Nebraska twice; once in 1831 and again in 1832.
	monet.unk.edu /mona/artexplr/catlin/catlin.html (261 words)

	George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
		George Catlin (1796-1872), a lawyer turned painter, decided in the 1820s, after encountering a delegation of Indians visiting Philadelphia (where he worked painting miniatures), that he would make it his life's work to record the "manners and customs" of American Indians living on the Plains.
		Catlin marveled at the huge buffalo herds that roamed the Plains, but he predicted that the buffalo would soon be extinct, ensuring the extinction of the Plains Indians' way of life as well.
		Catlin's grisly portrait, Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow, 183233, is a reminder of the mortality of both the bison and the Plains Indians.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa577.htm (1358 words)

	George Catlin Online
		George Catlin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		George Catlin at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
		All images and text on this George Catlin page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/catlin_george.html (484 words)

	Medicine Painter: George Catlin on the Upper Missouri River, 1832. Further Reading. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Catlin is readable and informative, if a bit dramatic and overblown for today’s taste.
		"George Catlin, Painter of Indians of the West." IN Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1955.
		This is a catalog of an exhibition of the Gilcrease Catlin Collection, which consists of oils and watercolors along with manuscripts and other works produced by Catlin primarily after 1836.
	www.ucdp.uc.edu /exhibits/catlin/catweb_page18.html (929 words)

	George Catlin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Catlin (1796-1872) grew up in Pennsylvania listening to stories told by his mother of her captivity at the age of seven by Iroquois Indians.
		Clark held the post of Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and he became Catlin’s patron, taking the artist with him to several negotiating and ceremonial sessions with Indians, whom Catlin studied and painted.
		Catlin spent his remaining years in New York displaying his Indian and western paintings.
	www.runningdeerslonghouse.com /webdoc248.htm (299 words)

	ArtNotes: George Catlin
		Born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, George Catlin became the first American artist of stature to visit and depict the Plains Indians on his own volition, and he spent about eight years traveling among the 48 North American Indian tribes.
		Catlin's childhood was in New York and Pennsylvania, and he heard much about Indians as a youngster because his mother at the age of eight had been captured by them.
		Catlin traveled the plains region during the summers until 1836 and returned East in the winters to get more money for his ventures.
	www.ready-to-hang.com /LCP_ArtNotes/George_Catlin_Bio.htm (665 words)

	George Catlin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Catlin, the American painter and writer, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on July 26, 1796.
		The Canadian Paul Kane saw Catlin's work in London and apparently decided on the spot to devote himself to recording the life and environment of Canadian Indians, whom he considered a vanishing race.
		Catlin's paintings, long acknowledged as a key ethnographic resource, have only recently been discussed as compelling works of art.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /bank_art/catli.htm (433 words)

	George Catlin (1796 - 1872) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		George Catlin, Plate 145 in the book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians by George Catlin (London: the author, 1841),2nd ed., vol.
		George Catlin, Plate 56 in the book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians by George Catlin (London: the author, 1841),2nd ed., vol.
		George Catlin, Plate 71 in the book Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians by George Catlin (London: the author, 1841),2nd ed., vol.
	www.wwar.com /masters/c/catlin-george.html (1658 words)

	Campfire Stories with George Catlin
		In the 1830s, George Catlin (1796–1872) packed his paintbrushes and trekked through remote Indian country in the Great Plains.
		Catlin's prolific works, both his art and his writings, illustrate Indian cultures on the precipice of radical change—change that would come with U.S. expansion into tribal territories.
		Catlin's Quest illustrates George Catlin's life and vision.
	catlinclassroom.si.edu /siteinfo.html (349 words)

	George Catlin
		George Catlin, the fifth of fourteen children, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1796.
		Catlin accompanied an expedition of the 1st Dragons in 1834 to Oklahoma Territory.
		Catlin was not a successful businessmen and bankruptcy in 1852 forced him to sell all his paintings to Joseph Harrison.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWcatlinG.htm (397 words)

	George Catlin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Catlin was born in 1796 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
		Catlin returned home and from 1852 to 1860 travelled widely, both in North and South America.
		Catlin's paintings capture for us an image of what Indian society was like before the groups had been decimated by small pox or internecine warfare.
	oz.plymouth.edu /~lts/wilderness/Artists/catlin.html (338 words)

	George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
		George Catlin (1796-1872), a lawyer turned painter, decided in the 1820s that he would make it his life's work to record the life and culture of American Indians living on the Plains.
		George Catlin was a complicated and controversial figure in his own century, and remains so today.
		The Kansas City venue of George Catlin and His Indian Gallery is supported by the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, UMB Bank, n.a., trustee; the Marguerite M. Peet Museum Trust, Marguerite Peet Foster and UMB Bank, n.a., co-trustees; and the Campbell-Calvin Fund and Elizabeth C. Bonner Charitable Trust for special exhibitions.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa189.htm (1124 words)

	Selections from the George Catlin Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this 1821 letter, George Catlin’s father has written a list of artists “chiefly of the 15th and 16th centuries” that he has “looked up” to convince his son “that I sometimes think of you and your art.”
		Catlin writes from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma to his brother-in-law, “I start this morning with the Dragoons for the Pawnee country, but God only knows where that is. I am in good health and hope to see you [illegible] in the course of the fall.”
		He asks Catlin for “the slightest sketch of an Indian cradle board … of the plainest sort” and mentions Catlin’s upcoming trip to England.
	artarchives.si.edu /exhibits/catlin/catlinchecklist.htm (783 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: George Catlin and His Indian Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1832, George Catlin—showman, entrepreneur, and artist—made the first of four trips into Indian country, painting as he went, in a wonderfully spontaneous, if somewhat naive style.
		And while Catlin was clearly influenced by the idea that Indians were Noble Savages (rapidly acquiring the vices of the white man while losing their "savage" virtues), his passion for his work is evidence of a profound respect and affection for his subjects, clearly demonstrated in this magnificent book.
		The text is also well written and tells the story of Catlin, his paintings, and the view point of the era.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393052176?v=glance (847 words)

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