“Now I am George Catlin again,” he wrote his brother just before returning to America in 1870. He exhibited his “Cartoon Gallery,” as he called the copies and his South American and other later works, ...

The most comprehensive display of Catlin's works in over a century, this exhibition showcases more than 400 paintings, personal papers, and American Indian artifacts and tells his unique story, ...

The man credited with “the earliest paintings in oil of the upper Missouri and northern Plains (including North Dakota)” was encouraged to pursue this challenge by explorer William Clark. George ...

REPRESENTATION, self-image and the outsider's gaze are the issues grappled with by a pair of concurrent Smithsonian exhibitions. At the National Museum of African Art, "In and Out of Focus: Images ...

Wilkes-Barre historian Tony Brooks reflects on the legacy of George Catlin George Catlin, born in Wilkes-Barre in 1796, preserved Native American history through his iconic art, including portraits ...

One day in 1805, a 9-year-old boy exploring the woods along the Susquehanna River in southcentral New York came face-to-face with an Oneida Indian. The boy froze, terrified. Towering over him, the ...