View in the Big Bend of the Upper Missouri, Smithsonian American Art Museum

View in the Big Bend of the Upper Missouri

George Catlin painted this landscape in 1832, during a lengthy voyage on the Missouri River. He described the scene as “magnificent clay bluffs, with high table-land in the distance.” (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition

George Catlin

Creation Date: 1832
Type: Painting
Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (28.5 x 36.6 cm)

Object #: 4428
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

Partner URL: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4428
Linked Data URI: saam:object/id/1985.66.391
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