Catlin's Art: Seeing The Big Picture From: The Washington Post | Date: September 22, 2002 | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

To the Editor:

I was stunned by the negativity in Paul Richard's article ["George Catlin's Indian Empire," Sunday Arts, Sept. 15] regarding the exhibit of Catlin's work at the Renwick Gallery. He calls Catlin a "mythmaker" whose depictions are "coarse," and, by the way, he "wasn't much of a painter."

Richard blames Catlin for everything from movie cowboys to planting the face on the Washington Redskins helmets. He quotes Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, connecting Catlin with dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He quotes W. Richard West, director of the ...

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