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Round Island, a Warrior
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1831
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 21 1/8 x 16 1/2 in. (53.7 x 41.8 cm)
- Culture
- Seneca Indians
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
George Catlin painted the Seneca warrior Round Island in February 1831, when a delegation of the tribe visited Washington, D.C. In his 1848 Catalogue, Catlin described him as a “very handsome fellow.”
