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Original works by George Catlin available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 George Catlin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fire in a Missouri Meadow and a Party of Sioux Indians Escaping from It, 1871
George Catlin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Clara Bartlet Gregory (Mrs. George Catlin), ca.1830
Portrait of a Gentleman, ca.1824
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
George Catlin at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
294 works by George Catlin
George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database
George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Exhibition: George Catlin's Indian Gallery
George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Educational exhibit: Campfire Stories with George Catlin
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Illustration from Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio
Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles NEW!
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Buffalo Hunt on Snow Shoes
The Bear Dance (Sioux), 1847
McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Shooting Flamingoes
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
4 paintings
George Catlin at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe, 1832
New-York Historical Society
General Winfield Scott, ca.1835
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
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Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
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George Catlin at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Selections from the George Catlin Papers
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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University of Maine Museum of Art
Joc-O-Sot The Walking Bear, a Sauk Chief from the Upper Missouri, lithograph, 1844
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Exhibition: George Catlin: The Medicine Painter
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Ba-da-ah-chon-du (He Who Outjumps All), a Crow Chief on Horseback, ca.1865-70
Virtual Museum of Canada
Approaching buffalo under white wolf skins, 1846-48
Comanche village, 1834-35
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
3 works online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
15 works online by Catlin
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
University of California
3 paintings online
University of Virginia Digital Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum George Catlin Indian Paintings
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on George Catlin 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The George Catlin papers online
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians
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