Object Details
- Artist
- George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
- Sitter
- Blue Medicine
- Luce Center Label
- George Catlin described Blue Medicine, a member of the Eastern Sioux/Dakota tribe, as a noted doctor or medicine man, “with his medicine or mystery drum and rattle in his hands, his looking-glass on his breast, his rattle of antelope's hoofs, and drum of deer-skins.” The artist painted this portrait in 1835 at Fort Snelling, a military post in today’s Minnesota. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- 1835
- Object number
- 1985.66.73
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Indian\Dakota
- Indian\Sioux
- Portrait male
- Record ID
- saam_1985.66.73
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7a15c6c8f-ea2d-4b36-b8ae-a535f99a792e
