George Catlin's Indian Empire; At the Renwick, a Painter-Huckster's Prized Commodity From: The Washington Post | Date: September 15, 2002| Author: Paul Richard | 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

Millions of Americans will recognize this vision.

There is a golden corner in our shared imagination -- no, more than a mere corner, a vast unbounded prairie -- where Tonto and John Wayne and Buffalo Bill Cody still forever ride. Their weaponry is lethal, their bravery immense.

George Catlin, the painter whose canvases now fill the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is rightly of that company.

Catlin (1796-1872) was a Pennsylvania lawyer who taught him...

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