White Cloud, Head Chief Of The Iowas

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White Cloud, Head Chief Of The Iowas

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Eric Glaser

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas"

Artist: George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

Title: The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas

Object Type: Painting

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Date: 1845

Dimensions: overall: 71 x 58 cm (27 15/16 x 22 13/16 in.)

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. USA

Current Location: Gallery 63

Object History: George Catlin [1796-1872]; by descent to his daughters, Clara Gregory Catlin, Louise Catlin Kinney, and Elizabeth Wing Catlin; purchased 1912 from Elizabeth Wing Catlin by the American Museum of Natural History; sold 1959 through (Kennedy Galleries, New York) to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1965 to the NGA.

Credit Line: Paul Mellon Collection

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.

During the 1830s, traveling with fur company representatives, cavalry officers, and later alone on multiple western journeys, George Catlin gathered drawings, sketches, and notes that would allow him to create an “Indian Gallery”—a collection of more than 500 paintings of American Indians. By the end of the decade, he would be widely recognized as the most celebrated painter of America’s native people. Catlin painted this portrait of White Cloud when the chief and a small party of Iowa joined the artist in France to promote a European tour of his “Indian Gallery.” The tour included a stop in Paris, where the Iowa performed before King Louis Philippe.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. USA

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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