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Sault Ste. Marie, Showing the United States Garrison in the Distance
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1836-1837
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. (49.7 x 70.0 cm)
- Culture
- Michigan
- 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 described this painting as “a view of the Sault de St. Marys, taken from the Canada shore, near the missionary-house, which is seen in the fore-ground of the picture, and in the distance, the United States Garrison, and the Rapids; and beyond them the Capes at the outlet of Lake Superior.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 54, 1841; reprint 1973)
