Biography file--artists, 1915-1984

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Biography file--artists, 1915-1984

1915-1984

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Series contains diverse types of material about artists of European descent who depicted Indians. Artist's series contains exhibition catalogs, invitations to exhibits, programs, reprints, magazines, news clippings including obituaries, correspondence, bibliographies, prints of artists' works, and some sketches and photographs. Artists include George Catlin, Edward Curtis, Henrietta L. Dessez, Frederic Remington, Winold Reiss, and many others. Most of the artists are American.

4 cubic ft.

eng, Latn

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Library.

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Catlin, George, 1796-1872

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George Catlin, artist and author, was known especially for his paintings of Indians. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he practiced law until his talent for painting led him to join a group of artists in Philadelphia in 1823. Catlin concentrated on portrait painting in Washington, D.C., until 1829, when he saw a delegation of visiting American Indians in Philadelphia. He then resolved to devote his life to preserving the appearance and character of the vanishing Indians and for forty-two yea...

Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...

Dessez, Henrietta L.

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Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953

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American architect and designer born in Germany. From the description of Selected drawings, 1915-1946. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83603385 ...

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Library.

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Collecting area: Material relating to archaeology, ethnology, languages, and contemporary issues of Indians and Eskimos of the Western hemisphere. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155463242 Munsee and Oneida Indian tribes were moved to Stockbridge, Mass. in 1763, and in the early 19th century to Stockbridge, Wisconsin. The groups were jointly called the Stockbridge Tribe. From the description of Stockbridge papers, 17...

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909

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Frederic Remington was born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute and attended Yale University. He worked as a cowboy, scout, and ran a sheep and mule ranch in the west. He married Eva Caten on October 1, 1884. Remington was a painter, sculptor and illustrator of Indians, cowbnoys and the American soldier at war. His travels took him to Germany, Russia, North Africa, Cuba and all over North America. Frederic Remington died December 26, 1909 in Ne...