George Catlin's American Buffalo
- ISBN-10
- 1907804323
- ISBN-13
- 9781907804328
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 121
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- D Giles Limited
- Author
- Adam Duncan Harris
Description
This volume presents 40 oil paintings by George Catlin (1796 1872), one of the first artists of European descent to travel up the Missouri river following the buffalo and the native Americans who hunted them. On the Oklahoma prairie, Catlin witnessed a
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