The Red Man’s Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler (W. W. Norton & Company, 480 pp., $29.95) Early last year, Britain’s National Portrait Gallery launched a traveling exhibition ...

George Catlin was an American artist known for his paintings of Native American culture during the early 19th century. Catlin’s primary aim was to document the tribes and landscapes of the frontier ...

A major exhibit of George Catlin's Indian paintings is on display at the Renwick Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. George Catlin is considered one of the preeminent ...

The experience may well have shaped George Catlin’s lifework. Today Indians from nearly 50 tribes are gathered in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

CHICAGO — The Field Museum will auction off a series of 19th century portraits of American Indians by artist George Catlin -- a decision that is expected to raise millions for the museum but ...

This small collection of George Catlin papers came to the Smithsonian Institution in 1879 with Catlin’s “Indian Gallery,” his famous paintings from life of Native Americans completed between 1830 and ...

George Catlin’s painting of ‘Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the Prairie’ will be a focal point of several events local artist Jan Lokuta has planned in honor of the founding of Yellowstone ...

A painting that gun-maker Samuel Colt commissioned from artist George Catlin shows pig-like peccaries surrounding a man in a South American forest. The explorer stands on a low tree within a hair ...

The McLean County Museum of History works diligently to collect, preserve, and document the stories of people who have shaped the county’s history. This essential part of the museum’s mission ...

Dance to the Berdash is an 1835-1837 oil painting by George Catlin, a 19th-century artist known for his paintings of Indigenous life and the American frontier. It depicts a real feast Catlin ...

Chicago may be the only place to see the ambitious and privately funded exhibition, which disrupts the idea of a gay-straight binary.

Survey the broad career of early 19th century lawyer-turned-artist George Catlin. Catlin gained notoriety for his vivid paintings of Native American life, which he became an expert on by living ...