Mún-ne-o-ye, a Woman

George Catlin, Mún-ne-o-ye, a Woman, 1832, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.262
George Catlin, Mún-ne-o-ye, a Woman, 1832, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.262
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Artwork Details

Title
Mún-ne-o-ye, a Woman
Artist
Date
1832
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
  • Indian — Iowa
  • Portrait female — Mun Né O Ye
Object Number
1985.66.262
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1985.66.262

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 Iowa woman at Fort Leavenworth (in today’s Kansas) in 1832. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 1, 1841; reprint 1973)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Gaston Lachaise, (Nude Dancer with Drape), ca. 1932-1935, pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Lachaise Foundation, 1966.104
(Nude Dancer with Drape)
Artist
Dateca. 1932-1935
pencil on paper
Not on view
Gaston Lachaise, Belle Lachaise, ca. 1918-1919, cast and painted plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the collection of the Zorach children, 1976.145.21
Belle Lachaise
Artist
Dateca. 1918-1919
cast and painted plaster
Not on view
Gaston Lachaise, Head of a Woman, 1935, bronze on marble base, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.51, © 1935, Lachaise Foundation
Head of a Woman
Artist
Date1935
bronze on marble base
Not on view

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