Grouse Shooting on the Missouri Prairies
Object Details
- Luce Center Label
- “In these delightful amusements, and with these pleasing companions, I have been for a while participating with great satisfaction; I have joined several times in the deer-hunts, and more frequently in grouse shooting . . .” The painting must have been a last-minute attempt by George Catlin to add variety to the Upper Missouri hunting scenes. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 33, 1841, reprint 1973; Truettner, The Natural Man Observed, 1979)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- 1837-1839
- Object number
- 1985.66.426
- Artist
- George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in. (49.7 x 70.0 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Topic
- Figure group\male
- Western
- Landscape\plain
- Indian
- Occupation\hunter
- Animal\bird\grouse
- Landscape\Missouri
- Record ID
- saam_1985.66.426
