George Catlin Prints
1796–1872 · American · Realism
Wall art by George Catlin, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
12 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About George Catlin
George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in July 1796, practised law briefly, and taught himself to paint miniatures. A delegation of Native Americans passing through Philadelphia set his course: between 1830 and 1836 he travelled up the Missouri to the Mandan villages and across the Plains, painting more than five hundred portraits and scenes of some fifty nations, often the only record of people and customs that vanished within a few years. He showed his Indian Gallery in eastern cities and then in London and Paris from 1839, with Baudelaire and Louis-Philippe among his admirers, but Congress refused to buy it, and he went bankrupt in 1852. He painted and travelled in South America in his later years and died in Jersey City in December 1872. The original gallery is now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His portraits print as striking, dignified images for a study or hallway.