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George Catlin

Painter of Indian Life

SHOW ME AMERICA

George Catlin Painter of Indian Life Richard Worth

SERIES CONSULTANT

Jeffrey W. Allison
Paul Mellon Collection
Educator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Cover Art:
Buffalo Bulls Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe. Blackfoot (George Catlin);
Buffalo Hunt Surround, no. 9, Lithograph (George Catlin).

First published 2009 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Worth, Richard.
George Catlin: painter of Indian life/Richard Worth.
p. cm. (Show me America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7656-8152-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Catlin, George, 17961872Juvenile literature. 2. PaintersUnited
StatesBiographyJuvenile literature. 3. Indians in artJuvenile
literature. 4. West (U.S.)In artJuvenile literature. I. Title.

ND237.C35W67 2008
759.13dc22
[B] 2007040694

ISBN 13: 9780765681522 (hbk)

Contents

CHAPTER ONE
Exhibit in New York City

CHAPTER TWO
The Early Years

CHAPTER THREE
Beginning a Lifes Work

CHAPTER FOUR
Painting the West

CHAPTER FIVE
The Wild West Show

CHAPTER SIX
Last Adventures

Two figures from Drinks the Juice of the Stone, in Ball-Players Dress. 1834. Choctaw. George Catlin

I love the people who have always made me welcome to the best they had.

I love a people who are honest without laws, who have no jails and no poorhouses.

I love a people who keep the commandments without ever having read them or heard them preached from the pulpit.

I love a people who never swear, who never take the name of God in vain.

I love a people who love their neighbors as they love themselves.

I love a people who worship God without a Bible, for I believe that God loves them also.

I love the people whose religion is all the same, and who are free from religious animosities.

I love the people who have never raised a hand against me, or stolen my property, where there was no law to punish either.

I love the people who have never fought a battle with white men, except on their own ground.

I love and dont fear mankind where God has made and left them, for there they are children.

I love a people who live and keep what is their own without locks and keys.

I love all people who do the best they can. And oh, how I love a people who dont live for the love of money.

The history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the life-time of one man.
George Catlin. John Neagle, date unknown

The history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the life-time of one man.
George Catlin

I n September 1837, an unusual exhibit opened in New York City. In fact, nothing I like it had ever been seen in the United States. At first, only a few people came to the exhibition, which was held in Clinton Hall. But as word spread, the crowds grew larger. Eventually, 600 people packed into the hall on a single evening. And each person paid 50, a fairly large sum of money in those days.

New Yorkers had gathered to see the paintings of a little-known artist named George Catlin. Since 1830, the wiry forty-one-year-old Catlin had traveled among American Indian tribes living in the West. Carrying his paints and canvases, the artist had recorded the cultures of the forty-eight tribes that he had visited.

Catlins portraits were breathtaking. They presented the proud people of the western Great Plains. Catlin had captured the timeless expressions of chiefs, medicine men, veteran warriors, and beautiful Indian women. They were clothed in long, flowing headdresses, finely decorated clothing made from animal skins, and a wide assortment of jewelry.

In addition to portraits, Catlin also had painted many scenes showing Indian customs. Some scenes showed the Plains warriors hunting buffalo, others presented native religious ceremonies, and still others were windows into tribal village life. In addition to displaying his paintings in the exhibit, Catlin also included many items that he had collected on his journeys. There were Comanche war lances and a tepee from the Crow Indians, as well as drums, peace pipes, shields, spears, and tomahawks.

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