The image shows a landscape view of vast plains with small mounds of earth, a high horizon, greenish-yellow grassy land, light blue mountains, a sky with pale blue and soft gray clouds, meticulous brushwork with fine details illustrating texture, an earthy color palette with greens, yellows, and browns, and figures including a hunter and two riders on horseback.
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Prairie Dog Village

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1861/1869

Medium
oil on card mounted on paperboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46.9 x 63.4 cm (18 7/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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