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Title
Ball-play Of The Choctaw - Ball Up
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
"Ball-play of the Choctaw - Ball Up"
Artist: George Catlin (American, 1796-1872)
Title: Ball-play of the Choctaw - Ball Up
Object Type: Painting
Date: 1850
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: Height: 65.4 cm (25.7 in); Width: 81.2 cm (32 in)
Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. USA
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
George Catlin was an American painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin was the first white man to depict Plains Indians in their native territory.
In 1834, George Catlin witnessed Choctaw lacrosse in Indian Territory near present-day Oklahoma, and was captivated by the game. He described ball-play as “a school for the painter or sculptor, equal to any of those which ever inspired the hand of the artist in the Olympian games or the Roman forum.” Lacrosse, which involved a no-holds-barred struggle for the ball, was a physical, even violent, game called “little brother of war” in Choctaw.
Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture, SAAM
This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Additional image editing by Eric Glaser
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July 17th, 2020
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