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Grouse Shooting on the Missouri Prairies
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
“In these delightful amusements, and with these pleasing companions, I have been for a while participating with great satisfaction; I have joined several times in the deer-hunts, and more frequently in grouse shooting . . .” The painting must have been a last-minute attempt by George Catlin to add variety to the Upper Missouri hunting scenes. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 33, 1841, reprint 1973; Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineGrouse Shooting on the Missouri Prairies. 1837-1839. George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.. CC0.
