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View in the Big Bend of the Upper Missouri
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
George Catlin painted this landscape in 1832, during a lengthy voyage on the Missouri River. He described the scene as “magnificent clay bluffs, with high table-land in the distance.” (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineView in the Big Bend of the Upper Missouri. 1832. 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.
