Smithsonian American Art Museum
Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the Prairie
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832-1833
Beginning in 1830, artist-explorer George Catlin made five trips to the western frontier. He was inspired to go west by the idea that America’s native people and its great herds of buffalo would soon melt away in the face of advancing civilization.
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