George Catlin’s American Buffalo
Adam Duncan Harris
Artist George Catlin journeyed west five times in the 1830s, traversing the Great Plains and visiting more than 140 American Indian tribes. In hundreds of canvases, Catlin recorded the lifeways of Plains Indians, including illustrating massive herds of buffalo and their importance in daily life. In George Catlin’s American Buffalo, Adam Duncan Harris considers forty of Catlin’s paintings and the artist’s role as an early proponent of wilderness conservation and the national park idea, and how that advocacy remains relevant today—to the Great Plains, the buffalo, and land use.
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Product Details
- Co-Publisher
- Copublished with D. Giles Ltd.
- Year Published
- 2013
- Subjects
- Pages
- 124 pp.: Ill (60 color, 3 black-and-white)
- ISBN
- Hardcover: 978-1-907804-32-8
- Dimensions
- 10 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄2 in.
Exhibitions
October 11, 2019–November 22, 2020
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists examines representations of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans on the Great Plains in the 1830s and in the twentieth century.