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View of the Canadian River, Dragoons Crossing
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1834-1835
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 19 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (49.5 x 69.9 cm)
- Culture
- Canadian River
- 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
“The landscape scenes of these wild and beautiful regions, are, of themselves, a rich reward for the traveller who can place them in his portfolio: and being myself the only one accompanying the dragoons for scientific purposes, there will be an additional pleasure to be derived from those pursuits. The regiment of eight hundred men, with whom I am to travel, will be an effective force, and a perfect protection against any attacks that will ever be made by Indians. It is composed principally of young men of respectable families, who would act, on all occasions, from feelings of pride and honour, in addition to those of the common soldier.” George Catlin made this sketch in 1834 on an expedition into Indian Territory with United States troops. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 37, 1841; reprint 1973)
