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Hard Hickory, an Amiable Man
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. (53.6 x 41.9 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
George Catlin probably painted Hard Hickory, a member of the Seneca tribe, in Washington, D.C., in February 1831. Catlin thought him “a very ferocious-looking, but a mild and amiable man.” (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
