Smithsonian American Art Museum
A Choctaw Woman
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834
The subject is described by George Catlin as having her hair in braids and a “remarkable expression.” The artist painted this Choctaw woman at Fort Gibson, Arkansas Territory, in 1834. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
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