Restored Indian portraits go on view

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002

The Smithsonian Institution is putting on a new exhibit of 400-plus paintings of famed Indian portrait artist George Catlin.

"George Catlin and His Indian Gallery" is considered the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Catlin's work. Catlin documented a number of Western and Plains tribes in the late 1800s because he thought they would go extinct.

The exhibit runs September 6 through January 19. at the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Get the Story:
The Vanishing West, Restored to View (The Washington Post 7/24)

Relevant Links:
Renwick Gallery - http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/
exhibits/renwick25
George Catlin Links - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/
catlin_george.html