In the canon
North American Indians
George Catlin
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1841
- Pages
- Pages 500
Catlin went up the Missouri in 1832 with brushes and canvas and came back with the faces of nearly fifty nations: Mandan, Crow, Blackfoot, Comanche, sitting for him in their best because he asked. The letters are what he wrote around the portraits.
Black and blue cloth and civilization are destined, not only to veil, but to obliterate the grace and beauty of Nature.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.