George Catlin was an American artist known for his paintings of Native American culture during the early 19th century. View George Catlin’s 382 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, ...

The Mandan, awed by Catlin’s ability to render likenesses, called him Medicine White Man. ... “Now I am George Catlin again,” he wrote his brother just before returning to America in 1870.

George Catlin, Medicine Buffalo of the Sioux, 1837-1839, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, ... George Catlin, Back View of Mandan Village, Showing the Cemetery,1832, ...

George Catlin's Indian Empire. ... Menominee and Seneca, Kickapoo and Mandan, Pawnee, Choctaw, Chippewa, Comanche -- he eventually portrayed selected individuals from nearly 50 tribes.

Denver - George Catlin's lurid painting of Mandan Indians undergoing an excruciating ritual caused a sensation among 19th-century audiences eager for news about the Wild West. The youths in ...

Jonathan Lopez reviews "The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman," by Benita Eisler. Before the advent of photography, ... including the Mandan, Cheyenne, ...

Historically, one of the most grievous feelings of “ultimate betrayal” occurred when Four Bears (Mato-tope), the second-in-command tribal chief of the Mandan Indians, lay dying of smallpox.

Five paintings by American artist George Catlin, based on the artist's 1832 visit to Fort Union near present-day Williston, will travel from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington to ...

George Catlin, born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796, preserved Native American history through his iconic art, including portraits and scenes of tribal life. His works, such as the buffalo bull, have been ...

The Mandan, awed by Catlin’s ability to render likenesses, called him Medicine White Man. ... “Now I am George Catlin again,” he wrote his brother just before returning to America in 1870.