George Catlin’s paintings were predicted to “grow in importance with advancing years, and when the race of which they are the representation will have entirely disappeared, their value will be inestimable,” wrote Smithsonian Director Joseph Henry on December 13, 1873. Today, the paintings’ unquestionable grandeur can be viewed from June-August 4 at the Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California, which has on loan a portion of Catlin’s original Indian Gallery from the Sm


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