Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
Date:
1859
Object Number:
S-225
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Mandan (Infant, Woman, and Man)
Object Number:
1872.23.33
Date:
1866-68
Medium:
Graphite and black ink on card
Dimensions:
Overall: 18 3/8 x 24 1/8 in. ( 46.7 x 61.3 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right inside image in black ink: "Geo. Catlin"; inscribed at upper center outside image in black ink over graphite: "Pl. 33. / Mandan"; at lower border outside image in black ink: "109 108"
Description:
Group portrait. Studies of Native Americans: this tribe was decimated by smallpox within a year after Catlin painted these portraits.
Gallery Label:
The 2,000 Mandans on the west bank of the Upper Missouri River were all destroyed by smallpox the year following Catlin's painting of these portraits
Credit Line:
Purchased by the Society
Provenance:
The artist's collection; Francis Putnam Catlin, the artist's brother, serving as agent to George Henry Moore, acting on behalf of N-YHS
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
