Wi-Jun-Jon - The Pigeon's Egg Head Going to Washington: Returning to his Home
George Catlin
1837/39
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph in black and brown, with opaque white watercolor and selective glazing, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 44.2 × 30.4 cm (17 7/16 × 12 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
266139
About the Artist
George Catlin · 1796–1872
George Catlin (1796–1872), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Putnam Catlin and Polly Sutton—who had been captured by Native Americans during the 1778 Battle of Wyoming—initially pursued a legal career. Trained at Litchfield Law School, he was admitted to the bar in 1819 but abandoned law after two years to study art in Philadelphia in 1823. Self-taught as a portraitist, Catlin quickly gained ...