Word: catlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists who went west, none returned with so important and thorough a document as George Catlin. The first artist to make the hazardous trip all the way up the Missouri River, Catlin lived among the Indians for eight years, brought back 510 paintings of the doomed "knights of the forest." His aim, he said, was to so record "their looks and their modes" that they "might live again upon canvas, and stand forth for centuries yet to come, the living monuments of a noble race." And so they do, ironically, in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center at Cody...
...business or professional men, including a 43-year-old Memphis lawyer, a 39-year-old trucking-firm vice president, a 38-year-old photographer. Three years ago, at the age of 37, Rion Dixon was an executive of St. Louis' International Shoe Co.; two years ago Robert L. Catlin, then 40, was a Miami real-estate man; now both are ministerial candidates at Columbia Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) in Decatur...
...painting should be a prolonged and haunting echo of human existence," he says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer paintings of the Yellowstone, Kurd's testament of art is his way of lingering in an historic land that he must some day leave. It will linger, because Hurd sees beauty in a dust storm, challenge...
Bravado & Bravery. The idea that portraits were history came naturally to Western Painter George Catlin. In the 1830s he resolved to assemble a pictorial record of the last golden years of the Indians freely living their own lives. He rode across hundreds of miles of unmapped prairie, visited 48 tribes and painted 600 pictures. His Indian Boy is a triumph of photographic realism blended with psychological insight. There is a trace of bravado in the boy's stance, backed by ultimate bravery in the clenched right fist. Around the eyes and mouth is the faint hint of sadness...
...mogul, a part Creek Indian who was allotted 160 acres of tribal land beneath which he found a bonanza, some $12 million of which he spent amassing a collection of Indian Americana, ranging from the art and annals of 45 tribes to Frontier Painters Frederic Remington and George Catlin's best oils on the fading redskin, which he gave to the city of Tulsa; of a stroke; in Tulsa, Okla...