Exhibitions

George Catlin: The Artist and the American Indian

June 5, 1981 – September 13, 1981

Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC

3rd Floor

See on Map Floor Plan

On view are 111 paintings, selected from the 445 in the museum's collection. Executed by Catlin between 1830 and 1848, the landscapes, portraits, and scenes of Indian life were intended to document a vanishing race for posterity.

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