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George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
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George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
By Brian W. Dippie, Therese Thau Heyman, Christopher Mulvey, and Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Edited by George Gurney and Therese Thau Heyman
"If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me from visiting every nation of Indians on the continent of North America." This quote from George Catlin in 1830 speaks volumes of the Pennsylvania-born artist's commitment to documenting and honoring the lives of Native Americans. Two years later, Catlin em...
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Catlin saves vanishing Indians on canvas; Renwick shows results of artist's travels in 1830s.(ARTS)(ART)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Painter George Catlin, the Audubon of American Indians, did for Indians what his contemporary John James Audubon accomplished for birds. A lawyer-turned-painter (1796-1872) in the 1820s, he determined to record the dying culture of American Indians.
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George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
Southwest Art
; George Catlin and His Indian Gallery By Brian W. Dippie, Therese Thau Heyman, Christopher Mulvey, and Joan Carpenter Troccoli Edited by George Gurney and Therese Thau Heyman "If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me from visiting every nation of Indians on the continent of North America." This
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Preview Largest Exhibition of George Catlin's Work In More Than 100 Years
U.S. Newswire
; News Advisory: What: Press conference and preview of "George Catlin and His Indian Gallery" When: Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. Where ...
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George Catlin's Indian Empire; At the Renwick, a Painter-Huckster's Prized Commodity
The Washington Post
; 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
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Plains Indians culture captured In Catlin paintings.(Los Angeles)(Brief Article)
Art Business News
; ... painter, followed the trail of Lewis and Clark and recorded more than 50 tribes in their own territories. Enhancing the exhibit are maps, a documentary video, an audio tour, selections from Catlin's journals and commentary from scholars and American Indians. Plains ...
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The Vanishing West, Restored to View; 400 Catlin Portraits to Hang in Renwick
The Washington Post
; The American Indian portraits of George Catlin originated in the frontier plains of the 1830s. They were shown in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and New York and then they floated abroad to tour the great capitals of Europe. Forty years later, the Smithsonian had them in its possession, claimed as national
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Catlin and the Indians.(George Catllin)
World and I
; ... 2005. There are first-rate related Web sites at http://www.americanart.si.edu/catlin and http://www.catlinclassroom.si.edu. Stephen Goode is a regular writer for Insight on the News, a publication of the Washington Times Corporation. Readout text.
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Letter to, and paintings by, George Catlin.(Teaching with Documents)
Social Education
; Letters received and sent by Secretary of War Lewis Cass in the 1830s reveal much about relations between the U.S. government and Native Americans. In the immediate aftermath of the Indian Removal Act, signed into law on May 28, 1830, by President Andrew Jackson, some letters came from interpreters
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Smithsonian features George Catlin's art of Native Americans.
Knight Ridder/Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; Byline: Chuck Myers WASHINGTON _ In the early 19th century, few citizens of the young United States knew much about the native peoples that inhabited the vast reaches west of the Mississippi River. Artist George Catlin showed them. During the 1830s, Catlin roamed the American West, painting the
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Smithsonian features George Catlin's art of Native Americans.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; WASHINGTON _ In the early 19th century, few citizens of the young United States knew much about the native peoples that inhabited the vast reaches west of the Mississippi River. Artist George Catlin showed them. During the 1830s, Catlin roamed the American West, painting the Native American tribes
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