George Catlin and the Old Frontier

Name/Title

George Catlin and the Old Frontier

Entry/Object ID

2009.3.26

Description

George Catlin and the Old Frontier is a comprehensive picture gallery and biography of George Catlin, the dean of American Indian painters. It contains 36 paintings in brilliant full color and 131 black-and-white reproductions of other pictures. Mr. Catlin wandered, virtually alone, through the west and painted among some forty-eight tribes of Indians. They permitted him to live with them and to witness and record in meticulous derail their daily lives and their most secret ceremonies. This book is from the Don Reynolds collection. 216/Hardbound/Illustrations

Collection

Don and Maudie Reynolds Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Artists, Catlin, George, Western Art, Indian Interaction, Native American Portraits, Biography

Book Details

Author

McCracken, Harold

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1959

Call No.

Western McC

ISBN

0-517-084279

LCCN

84-18463

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

George Catlin