Smithsonian American Art Museum
View in the Big Bend of the Upper Missouri
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832
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)
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