(1796 - 1872)
George Catlin was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey. George Catlin is known for Indian genre-figure and portrait painting.
Born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, George Catlin became the first
American artist of stature to visit and depict the Plains Indians on
his own volition, and he spent about eight years traveling among the 48
North American Indian tribes including to Alaska. His sketches
and paintings are the first and most important record of land west of
the Mississippi River before white settlement. Historian Robert
Taft wrote that ..."it can be said that Catlin was the great publicist"
of the upper Missouri region as a result of his trip in 1832. . . "I
find Catlin's name the most frequently mentioned in biographical
accounts of later artists of the West or for that matter one of the
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