Four Winds Gallery
Current Exhibition:
Cody Sanderson
Past Exhibitions:
Buying Trip 2008
R.C. Gorman
Bruce King and Na Na Ping
Jovanna Poblano and Daniel Chattin
Buying Trip 2007
Liz Wallace
Stan Natchez - Shoshoni/Paiute Artist
NaNa Ping and Thomas Bucich
Buying Trip 2006
George Catlin
Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Dawn Wallace
Charlene Reano
Buying Trip 2005
Robert Deurloo
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Liz Wallace
Buying Trip 2004
Zapotec Weavings of Teotitlan
Clifford Fragua
NaNa Ping
George Catlin
Four Winds Gallery invites you to view an extremely rare collection of George Catlin's steel etchings.
The 15 historic images in the collection are from a second printing produced in the 20th Century. All steel etchings are hand-coloured and form part of Catlin's
North American Indian Portfolio.
Also on display will be a small collection of historic C.B. King coloured etchings along with original photogravures by Edward S. Curtis depicting the Indians of the 1800s-1900s.
George Catlin (1796-1872) was one of the greatest American artists of the nineteenth century. He also wrote extensively trying to preserve the rapidly vanishing Native American culture he so admired. Catlin was the first artist to record the Plains Indians in their own territories. He admired them as the embodiment of the enlightenment ideal of the "natural man", living in harmony with nature.
"Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio" represents Catlin's finest work, presenting in vivid detail his first-hand observations of the manners, customs and living conditions of the Indian tribes of the American Frontier during his travels between 1832-1839. Catlin brings to life 48 different tribes many of which were virtually unknown to the white population of his day.
From the Senecas, Oneidas and Tuscaroras of the Northeast ... to the Choctaws, Cherokees and Creeks of the South ... to the Mandans, Pawnees and Sioux of the Great Plains ... to the Blackfeet, Nez Perces and Crows of the Far West, thse paintings capture all aspects of a vibrant Native American civilisation which in a few short decades would almost cease to exist.
After Catlin's death the Indian paintings were donated to the Smithsonian. Today Catlin's Indian gallery is recognised as a great cultural treasure, offering rare insight into Native cultures and a crucial chapter in American history.
Attacking the Grizzly Bear
The North American Indians