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George Catlin

Catlin was a self-taught artist and writer who pursued a project of documenting Native American culture as part of the myth of the “vanishing Indian.”

Dates
1796–1872
Born In
North America > United States
Active In
North America > United States
Period Culture Style
Romanticism
Realism
Known For
Painting > Portrait painting
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