조지 캐틀린

소개

조지 캐틀린(George Catlin, 1796년 7월 26일 ~ 1872년 12월 13일)은 미국의 화가이자, 작가이면서 여행가이다. 주로 서부 개척 시대 당시에 미국의 아메리카 원주민을 대상으로 초상화를 그리는 것을 전문으로 하였다. 1830년대, 미국 서부를 5번 동안 여행하면서, 인디언의 고유 영토에서 평원인디언을 그린 첫 번째 백인이 되었다.

George Catlin was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.