When did George Catlin live?

George Catlin lived from 1794 to 1872.

What movement was George Catlin part of?

George Catlin was part of the Realism movement.

How many George Catlin paintings are in the archive?

There are 277 paintings by George Catlin in the Artifact World Gallery archive.

Where can I see paintings by George Catlin?

Paintings by George Catlin are held by National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

George Catlin · 277 Paintings, Biography & Famous Works

American, 1794–1872

George Catlin was an American Realism painter. 361 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. George Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre.

George Catlin ( KAT-lin; July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State.

Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.