Into the wild: for the first time in more than a century, the Smithsonian Institution will share artist George Catlin's enduring portrait of America in the 1830s, comprising his many captivating paintings of Indian tribes and landscapes of the untamed West in which they lived. (Cover Story).

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The year 1826 was a big one in the life of 30-year-old George Catlin. Three years earlier he had sold his law books and abandoned a promising career in law to devote himself to art. He painted portraits, often in miniature, in Philadelphia. Sometimes he portrayed the great: Catlin's portrait of Sam Houston is the best image extant of the famous Texas hero.

But young artists cut no big figure among the many talented men and women of America's cultural capital, which Philadelphia was at the time, and by Catlin's own admission he lacked motivation. He didn't know what he wanted ...

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