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Landscape Background
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1846-1848
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 19 1/4 x 26 5/8 in. (48.9 x 67.6 cm)
- 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. 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 traveler.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 37, 1841; reprint 1973)
