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Ep. 09: Catlin’s and Bodmer’s "Time Machine Visuals"

Ep. 09: Catlin’s and Bodmer’s "Time Machine Visuals"

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Landscapes, wildlife, and Native people dominated the fascination
with the early American West, but imagining that world is not
easy. Fortunately, two talented and committed painters, one
American and one European, left the future a rich and varied body
of “Time Machine Visuals” of the Missouri River West in the
1830s. George Catlin was a Pennsylvanian whose life’s work was to
be the historian of Native people. Catlin was a Romantic who
believed preserving the West’s landscapes, animals, and Indian
peoples was essential to the future. Karl Bodmer was the
supremely talented painter on a Prussian prince’s 1833-4 journey
up the Missouri, whose marvelous paintings have enabled modern
Native people and Hollywood to re-discover the early West. Both
men are celebrated now for their visual portrayals of a lost
world.

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