Catlin had settled in New York by 1826, the year he was elected to the National Academy of Design. He planned to enter several painting in that exhibition, but decided to not put up the works, after learning that they were to be hung in an obscure location. The young artist resigned from the organization the following year and did not show his work again in New York until 1828, when he exhibited twelve paintings at the American Academy of Fine Arts. Catlin married, and for the next few years he and his wife Clara divided their time between New York City, her family's home in Albany, Washington, and Richmond. Work was scarce during much of this time; in 1829 the artist did receive an offer to paint a group portrait if the one-hundred-one Virginia legislators assembled at the State Constitutional Convention in Richmond. After this, Catlin had marginal success. His career spent traveling throughout the western territories painting Indians would offer him adventure and almost certain fame. Catlin's first trip west was in 1830. With the encouragement of General William Clark, the famous explorer who was then serving as Superintendent of the Indian Affairs for the Western tribes and Governor of the Missouri Territory, the artist gained access to numerous Midwestern tribes and was able to study them in great detail. In the summer of 1838, only six years after his visit, the Mandan Indians became ill with smallpox which was from the fur traders. Nearly half the Indians were dead. The forty who survived were soon enslaved, murdered, or assimilated by neighboring tribes. The disease went on to 25,000, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Crow Indians before gradually spreading west to the Pacific. .
From 1830-1836, he recorded the lives and exotic customs of his subjects than on following the philosophy of beauty and the Fine Arts. Because he was forced to work rapidly, he generally would detail the face more than the rest of the body, and outline in earth tones, and adding only the colorful costumes.
In the words of author George Catlin from his book Native American Indians, "that he witnessed Indians" sincerity of worship and he had never seen any other people who spend so much of their lives in worshipping The Great Spirit" (473). ...
The City of Boston Boston is the capital and largest city of Massachusetts. It was established in 1630 by John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company. No city in the United States is as blessed as Boston when it comes to historical sites. All of the sites that I will describe to you are a p...
In 1984 the International Olympic Committee, the NCAA and the American College of Sports Medicine ruled, "Any blood doping procedure used in an attempt to improve athletic performance is unethical, unfair, and exposes the athlete to unwarranted and potentially serious health risks (Catlin, 1996, 231)." ...
Drugs and Sports It is an ethical question whether or not athletes should take drugs to enhance their performance in sports today. While athletes who take drugs to enhance their performance find them to be beneficial, the drugs they are taking can actually be very dangerous to their health. The ...
Art for Politics Sake: Art Censorship in Communist China, And The United States We want one single, grand lie which will be believed by everybody - including the rulers, ideally, but failing that the rest of the city -Plato from his Republic Today if an average American was asked if he or she believed that censorship was an important part of the perfect state, they would not only answer "no" but they would say that the perfect state must have no form of censorship in order for it's people to be happy. The average person believes also, that any true philosopher would a...
In nineteenth century, there appeared many great names in the art world of America such as George Catlin, George Healy, and Mary Cassatt. Among that, William Morris Hunt emerged as one of the most important American artists of the second half of the century, bringing a new influence and art to Ameri...
Of Mice and Men is a novel of hopes and dreams that get broken or shattered. John Steinbeck presents the novel in a theme of broken dreams and a since of hopelessness. This is evident from start to finish in the novel. The theme is kept strong by having all the characters wanting to have hope for so...
In Educational Experiences of Children in Out-of-Home Care, Smithgall, Gladden, Howard, Goerge and Courtney (2004) state, "It appears that the major source of miscommunication is that everybody has a different perspective about who is responsible for communicating what to whom" (p. 36). ...
