Ojibwa Spearfishing Salmon by Torchlight
Artist
George Catlin
(born Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, 1796; died Jersey City, New Jersey, 1872)
Date1855-1865
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 18 1/2 × 26 in. (47 × 66 cm)
Frame: 27 1/16 × 34 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (68.7 × 87.6 × 7.9 cm)
Frame: 27 1/16 × 34 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (68.7 × 87.6 × 7.9 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineTacoma Art Museum, Haub Family Collection, Gift of Erivan and Helga Haub
Object number2017.14.14
DescriptionMoonlit scene of a Native American spearfishing from a canoe on a lake or river.On View
Not on view
circa 1850s
