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Birth
1796 (Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania)
Death
1872 (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania/New Jersey
George Catlin 1849 by William Fisk
Often Known For
Indian genre-figure and portrait painting
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Categories of Interest
Painted in Latin America
Paris Pre 1900
Western Painters
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| 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"
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