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George Catlin : American Indian portraits

Title
George Catlin : American Indian portraits / Stephanie Pratt & Joan Carpenter Troccoli.
Author
Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Publication
London : National Portrait Gallery, [2013], ©2013.
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  • Pratt, Stephanie, 1958-
  • Troccoli, Joan Carpenter.
  • National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
  • Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Description
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, color portraits; 27 cm
Summary
This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases works from Catlin's 'Indian Gallery' - a series of portraits not seen in the UK since the 1840s - and seeks to reposition this remarkable artist for a contemporary audience. The authors explore the origins of Catlin's achievement: his ambition to record what he believed to be dying cultures, and his collecting activities, educational intentions and methods of exhibition and display, which demonstrate the growth of a new sensibility towards native peoples. While Catlin's work is well known in the USA, especially in Washington DC, where most of it is still housed in the Smithsonian Institution, George Catlin's Indian Gallery will help to bring these spectacular pictures to new audiences in Britain and around the world. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (4.3.-23.6.2013).
Alternative Title
American Indian portraits
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Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at National Portrait Gallery, London, March 7-June 23 and at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, July-September 2013.
  • "George Catlin: American Indian Portraits is organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington."--P. 192
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-186) and index.
Contents
Director's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Map of American Indian localities in 1833 -- George Catlin and the representation of North American Indians / Stephanie Pratt -- George Catlin: an American artist at home and abroad / Joan Carpenter Troccoli -- Chronology -- Plates -- Notes and nomenclature -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781855144576
  • 1855144573
OCLC
  • ocn824524910
  • 824524910
  • SCSB-5763251
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Columbia University Libraries