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George Catlin Works Online
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Original works by George Catlin available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 George Catlin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
George Catlin at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database
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
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Buffalo Hunt on Snow Shoes
The Bear Dance (Sioux), 1847
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
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
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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
Virtual Museum of Canada
Approaching buffalo under white wolf skins, 1846-48
Comanche village, 1834-35
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
3 works online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
George Catlin at The Art Renewal Center
George Catlin at The Athenaeum 
15 works online by Catlin
George Catlin in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
George Catlin at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
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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 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
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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