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Catlin, George (1796 - 1872)

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Catlin, George (1796 - 1872)
<strong>Catlin, George </strong>
(1796 - 1872)

<strong>Kee-mo-ra-ni-a, North American Indians from the Duke of Portland Album Unique, ca. 1852-1868</strong>

graphite on paper
13 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (sight)
inscribed on verso: <i>207 / Peoria / Kee-mo-ra-ni-a (---------) a young / man, curiously dressed and painted, with / his looking glass in his hand.</i>

The Duke of Portland's portfolio is one of eleven Souvenir Albums that George
Catlin executed between 1852 and 1868. Scattered throughtout the
United States and Europe, these are currently in the manuscript collections of
the British Museum, London, England; the Henry E. Huntington Library,
San Marino, California; the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution, New York; and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, among others.


Provenance:
Collection of the artist, 1859.
John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, sixth Duke of Portland, England.
By descent in the family, until 1953.
Charles Traylen, Guilford, England, 1953.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Forbes Magazine Collection, 1998


Literature:
C. Forbes, "The Forbes Magazine Collection," <i>American Art Review,</i> June 1999,
pp. 128-141