George Catlin : American Indian portraits / Stephanie Pratt & Joan Carpenter Troccoli.

Author/creator Pratt, Stephanie, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2013.
Description192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits, color maps ; 27 cm
Subjects
Catlin, George, 1796-1872--Exhibitions.
Indians in art--Exhibitions.
West (U.S.)--In art. --Exhibitions.

Other author/creatorTroccoli, Joan Carpenter.
Other author/creatorCatlin, George, 1796-1872.
Other author/creatorNational Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Other author/creatorBirmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
Other author/creatorSmithsonian American Art Museum.
Variant title American Indian portraits
Contents Director's foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Map of American Indian localities in 1833 -- George Catlin and the representation of North American Indiand / Stephanie Pratt -- George Catlin: an American artist t home and abroad / Joan Carpenter Troccoli -- Chronology -- Plates -- Notes and nomenclature -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index.
Summary This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases works from Catlin's 'Indian Gallery' - a series of portraits not seen in the UK since the 1840s - and seeks to reposition this remarkable artist for a contemporary audience. The authors explore the origins of Catlin's achievement: his ambition to record what he believed to be dying cultures, and his collecting activities, educational intentions and methods of exhibition and display, which demonstrate the growth of a new sensibility towards native peoples. While Catlin's work is well known in the USA, especially in Washington DC, where most of it is still housed in the Smithsonian Institution, George Catlin's Indian Gallery will help to bring these spectacular pictures to new audiences in Britain and around the world. 0Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (4.3.-23.6.2013). 0.
General notePublished in conjunction with an exhibition held at National Portrait Gallery, London, Mar. 7-Jun. 23 and at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Jul.-Sept., 2013.
General note"George Catlin: American Indian Portraits is organised b the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington."--P. 192
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 184-186) and index.
ISBN9781855144576 (hardback)
ISBN1855144573 (hardback)

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