Wife of Two Crows

George Catlin, Wife of Two Crows, 1832, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.174
Copied George Catlin, Wife of Two Crows, 1832, oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.174
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Artwork Details

Title
Wife of Two Crows
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
  • Dress — Indian dress
  • Indian — Hidatsa
  • Portrait female — Two Crows, Wife of
  • Portrait female — Two Crows, Wife of — bust
Object Number
1985.66.174
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1985.66.174

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 painted Wife of Two Crows at a Hidatsa village in 1832. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 1, 1841; reprint 1973)