The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman

by Benita Eisler and Ralph Moody

Book Overview

George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a "vanishing race" before their "extermination"--his word--by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits--unforgettable likenesses of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066169
• ISBN13: 9780393066166
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"