George Catlin, Aih-no-wa, The Fire, a Fox Medicine Man, 1835, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.17
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Aih-no-wa, The Fire, a Fox Medicine Man
- Artist
- Date
- 1835
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Object — weapon — bow and arrow
- Dress — Indian dress
- Portrait male — Fire — full length
- Indian — Sauk and Fox
- Object Number
- 1985.66.17
Artwork Description
“I have visited forty-eight different tribes, the greater part of which I found speaking different languages, and containing in all 400,000 souls. I have brought home safe, and in good order, 310 portraits in oil, all painted in their native dress, and in their own wigwams . . . as well as a very extensive and curious collection of their costumes, and all their other manufactures, from the size of a wigwam down to the size of a quill or a rattle.” George Catlin probably painted this work at a Sac and Fox village in 1835. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 1, 1841; reprint 1973)
