# Hard Hickory, an Amiable Man

- By: George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=4085)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6c16822bdf689ab583061db0f0cd6b13.jpg
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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)