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George Catlin
George Catlin (1796 - 1872), was an American painter, author
and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in
the Old West.
Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Following a brief
career as a lawyer, he produced two major collections of paintings
of American Indians and published a series o f books chronicling
his travels among the native peoples of North, Central and South
America. Claiming his interest in America's 'vanishing race' was
sparked by a visiting American Indian delegation in Philadelphia,
he set out to record the appearance and customs of America's native
people.
In 1998, the United States Postal Service issued a set of 20
commemorative stamps entitled "
Four
Centuries of American Art", one of which featured George Catlin's
"The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas"
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