Prints by George Catlin
From North American Indian Portfolio

Other Catlin prints: [ Octavo | Swedish edition ]

Print from Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. London: G. Catlin, 1844. Images ca. 12 x 17 1/2. Some prints 'deluxe' edition, with image trimmed and mounted to backing; others with regular margins. Lithographs drawn by McGahey and printed by Day & Hague. Original hand color. With some minor blemishes and tears in margins. Overall, very good condition except as noted.

The prints of George Catlin mark a poignant and heroic moment in the history of American art and culture. Setting out to chronicle and immortalize Indian culture, George Catlin lived a life of pioneer adventure and spirit colored by the ideal of the 'noble savage' in his pristine environment. In 1830 he went out to St. Louis and from there traveled extensively for several years to Indian villages along the Platte and Missouri rivers and then later to tribes throughout the mid and far west. The result was some 500 paintings and one of the most significant chronicles of Indian life and culture ever produced. Catlin put his paintings on exhibit in the United States and Europe, hoping to make his fortune, but though they were popular, these exhibitions were a financial failure. In an attempt to expand his market, Catlin had a number of his paintings made into prints, issuing them in 1844 as Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Very few first hand images of Native Americans from the beginning of the nineteenth century have survived, and these are among the most dramatic and detailed. Not only do they provide us with much ethnological information, but with their rich color, detail and artistic worth, they are a noble legacy from Catlin's memorable career.

• Plate 7. "Buffalo Hunt, Chase." $5,750

• Plate 8. "Buffalo Dance." $5,750

• Plate 10. "Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves Attacking a Buffalo Bull." $2,500

• Plate 12. "Buffalo Hunt. Chasing Back." $2,500

• Plate 14. "The Snow-Shoe Dance." $5,500

  
  

• Plate 15. "Buffalo Hunt, On Snow Shoes." $4,750

  
  

• Plate 16. [Wounded Buffalo Bull.] $1,800

• Plate 17. "Dying Buffalo Bull, In Snow Drift." $3,500

• Plate 18. "The Bear Dance." Some retouching of color in sky. Some light stains in margins and small chip in corner of margin. $4,500

  
  

• Plate 19. "Attacking The Grizzly Bear." $5,750

• Plate 20. "Antelope Shooting." $3,500

• Plate 20. "Antelope Shooting." Another example, without hand color. With two repaired tears, one into image at top. $1,350

  
  

• Plate 22. "Ball-Play Dance." $5,500

  
  

• Plate 24. "Archery Of The Mandans" $7,250

• "Mah-To-Toh-Pa." With light knothole stain in image. $5,200

• "The War Dance." $5,750

• "The Scalp Dance." $5,750

• "O-Jib-Be-Ways." $4,200

More prints after Catlin, smaller sizes.

GEORGE CATLIN: THE PRINTED WORKS
The University of Cincinnati Digital Press, 1998. 2 CD-ROMs.

The Philadelphia Print Shop is delighted to be able to offer this superb CD-ROM set of the principal printed works of George Catlin. For 2 CD-ROM set, $499
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