The image features a landscape with green hills in the background, adorned with trees and bushes. The brushstrokes blend smoothly, creating soft contours. The dominant colors are green and blue, with hints of pink in the sky. A group of people is seated in the foreground.
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Nishnabotana Bluffs, Upper Missouri

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1861/1869

Medium
oil on card mounted on paperboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 47.7 x 62.2 cm (18 3/4 x 24 1/2 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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