Smithsonian American Art Museum
Hard Hickory, an Amiable Man
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1831
George Catlin probably painted Hard Hickory, a member of the Seneca tribe, in Washington, D.C., in February 1831. Catlin thought him “a very ferocious-looking, but a mild and amiable man.” (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
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