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Title: American Artist, American Indians
Description: Article notes the traveling exhibit of George Catlin's paintings of American Indians, currently at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The exhibit opened February 7, 2004 and will run until April 18, 2004. The article includes the history of the artist's life as well as his trips West.
Date: 2004-02-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Pictorial Historian
Description: Brief article describing a George Catlin exhibit on loan (from the Smithsonian American Art Museum) to the Museum of the American West in Los Angeles from the Smithsonian Institution from Jun 4-August 4, 2004. Includes a brief synopsis of Catlin's life and art.
Date: 2004-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Pawnees!!
Description: Article about the Pawnee Indians and the various accounts documented in letters, diaries and books by early travelers, including George Sibley, George Catlin, J. Goldsborough Bruff, Thomas Bullock, John Treat Irving, and William Marshall Anderson.
Date: 2011
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Selling the 'Noble Savage' Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845
Description: This study is partly about the American artist George Catlin and his white contemporaries who promoted a mythical image of Native Americans for profit. Their story is relatively well known to historians and other scholars. The added dimension in this narrative is a group of Indians--the Iowas--the 'commodity' that Catlin and others peddled to the public. Article is illustrated with many of Catlin's paintings.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Methodist Shawnee Mission in Johnson County, Kansas, 1830-1862
Description: Mention of artist Carl Bodmer, or Karl Bodmer, along with fellow artist George Catlin, "provid[ing] today our most important visual records of the early Trans-Mississippi West," with their trips on the Missouri River in the 1830s observing Indian life.
Date: 1956-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Canoe River [and] Catlin's Paintings of Indians
Description: Two separate articles about the meaning of the name of "Missouri" and paintings of western American Indians from 1829 to 1837 by "George Catlin, American pioneer artist."
Date: 1954-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Early-Day Fort Leavenworth, Missouri: Selected Scenes, Episodes and Facts of This Western Outpost from Its Founding to the Mexican War
Description: Mention of artist George Catlin visiting Fort Leavenworth in 1833, at the time often listed as being located in Missouri (actually Indian Territory before Kansas Territoy).
Date: 1956-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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