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Cary ENGLISH SKYSCRAPER « Speaker Rainey Wields the Gavel By ELMO SCOTT WATSON A u JP" iß* ■'x. mm , PW^^FCENT exhibitions of native art— $1,. m fl flft drawings, paintings and other exam- .mm f- ■ ■ pies of handicraft—in various parts ' X- of the country have not only served ■- m^ÊjW to revive the Interest of the people ■ r $-p m » jS&fc : . of the United States in the original ; m Mfi wjl inhabitants of this continent, the >V: 4 'MV v.¥ vju N0 North American Indians, but they < * M «ülwpîÇflj-ÿ yk >; Zv ■: W' _Tvv\jjrA have also served to recall the serv *> X ïf.. « lops of a group of men whose work 1 g - 4. m «» al»' “‘jW ; >• » c* s - deserves a better fate than the par- Bè‘: m m : lpr]\\f tial oblivion which has been theirs, ;*■ ««« » - Jm m 1 pk f - n w,. v oj) These are the early painters of the •■te i 2. mm i?? Indians to whom we are indebted mm : ■ W'm'. vX-'ivXS for most of our pictorial evidence y- ; ' * ■ ■■■ i about thé red man while he was still compara­ mê i? ZAÿ ■ - H mw tively untouched by the so-called “civilizing" In­ ite-:;. U i. texte- / m fluences of the white man. OU P ;::x Foremost among the names of these artists "An Osa^e Scalp Dance1i) ■X % hy John MU Ôfanky-/8«S ■ te Is that of George Catlin and mention of him is I* 'V r ill Is singularly appropriate at this time because ir remainder which arc still preserved In the Smith­ which now hang In the government museum, - < f Jt was just 100 years ago that Catlin had started ’ sonian are valued at not less than $1,000,000, formerly the royal palace, In Honolulu. ! ®n his work of recording the appearance, social which, If anything, Is an undervaluation, con­ ite; Returning to this country in 1850 Stanley ex­ life and customs of the tribes of the trans-Mls- sidering their Importance. Catlin died In 1872 HIM f » i hibited his pictures In various eastern cities Hr * slsslppl West. Catlin was born In Wyoming, at the age of seventy-six. U jl i fi < Pa., In 1790 and In accordance with his father’s and in 1853 he was appointed artist to the ex­ The same fate overtook most of the paintings wishes studied for the profession of law, which pedition sent by the government to explore a !>:»!»] inarm of another famous artist, John Mix Stanley. For 1 » IL he began practicing In Philadelphia. But, be­ route for a Pacific railroad from St. Paul to ' •”! Hi JLS the same fire in the Smithsonian destroyed all ing fond rtf excitement and adventure, he found Puget sound. Before starting on this expedi­ but five of Stanley’s collection of more than 150 It difficult to stick to his business and he de­ tion he deposited his collection of Indian paint­ paintings which represented 10 years of work pH i&rrii voted almost as much time to his avocation of ings In the Smithsonian institution. Various at­ among 43 different tribes on the southwestern V" drawing and painting, In which he was self- tempts were made to have congress purchase the X prairies, In New Mexico, California and Oregon. : taught, as he did to his vocation of law. collection for the nation but nothing came of isüa Stanley was born In Canadalgua, N. Y., In One day in 1830 a party of Indians from the them. The pictures remained the property of '.X 1814 and died In Detroit the same year that saw f % “Far West” who were on their way to a coun­ the artist, so when all of them except five were iLi ■ x] the death of Catlin—1872. At the age of four­ cil with the Great White Father In Washington destroyed in the January, 1865, fire In the Smith­ teen he became an orphan and was apprenticed stopped over in Philadelphia. Catlin saw them sonian, Stanley suffered a great personal loss. to a wagon maker In Naples, N. Y., where he Building operations for the first on the streets and was so delighted with their A list of early painters of the Indians would spent his boyhood. In 1834 he moved to De­ skyscraper in England are expected I fine forms and noble bearing that he determined not be complete without Including In It the name troit and the next year his latent genius be­ to be started soon at South Shore, to give up his law practice and devote his life of Carl Bodmer, a Swiss artist who accompanied gan to show Itself In a series of portraits and Blackpool, where the Sun Ray ho­ to making a collection of paintings of Indians Prince Maximilian of Wled-Neuwled, when that landscapes. In 1838-39 he made his home In tel, a 40-story structure, will be put which would show, after they were gone, how distinguished German scientist made his Journey Chicago and Galena, the famous lead mining up. It will have a height of 611 feet, zui ET X X they looked and how they lived. up the Missouri in 1832-34. Bodmer not only center In Illinois, and at this time he first be­ and an enormous ball. 27 feet 6 The result was his first Journey to the Indian “left posterity a priceless heritage of Indian por­ Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, who was chosen speaker of the house In came Interested In Indians, making trips to Fort Inches In diameter, lighted with or­ country In 1832 and for the next eight years he traits and pictures” but he also, like Gatlin, the Seventy-third congress, opening the special session called by President Snelling, Minn., to paint them. From 1839 to ange rays, will act as a beacon for devoted himself to the work. He traveled many made drawings of forts, fur trading posts, bat­ Roosevelt. 1842 he made his home again In the East and miles around. The photograph shows thousands of miles by canoe and on horseback tle scenes, etc., which are Invaluable historical continued with his painting. a mode of the proposed hotel. among tribes which were still as wild and un­ records. In the picture by Bodmer which Is re­ tamed as they had been In pre-Columbian days His first Important work among the Indians produced above are shown three typical war­ Japan Children Send Things to Army and he found plenty of excitement, difficulty and was done In 1842 when he visited the Indian riors of the plains (from left to right) a Mis­ NEW FRENCH ENVOY country In Arkansas and New Mexlpo and made souri, an Oto and a Ponca. ---- T danger in his work. He made paintings every­ ;-te: ] where. portraits of chiefs and warriors, paint­ many pictures of Indians and Indian scenes. Until a few years ago there was living In New ings of the scenery of the West, of herds of buf­ The next year he was In what Is now Okla­ York city another early painter of the Indian homa, painting among the Cherokees, the Creeks, te 71 : 1Ü falo, of hunting life, of Indian games, cere­ whose work takes rank with that of the artists ■ -■ u monies, social customs—everything that would and the Delawares as well as some of the tribes previously mentioned. He was William De Ls ;.#ÿ , Illustrate the life and country of the wild tribes In Texas. The year 1845 found him again In Montagne Cary, a New Yorker who In 1861 with of the West. More than that, he painted scenes New Mexico and by this time he had painted two companions made his way up the Missouri ■ of old trading posts and United States forts, 83 canvases which he exhibited In Cincinnati river from St. Louts and during the next 13 .% * M upon whose sites now stand Important American and Louisville. years put down on canvas scenes from the fast- In % cities, so that even If he had not left an In­ May, 1848, Stanley returned to the West and vanishing frontier which are among the most k valuable record of the Indian, the historical painted the famous Sac chief, Keokuk, the wife valuable records of life In those days which we value of this other phase of his work would be of Black Hawk and other notables of that tribe. have. great enough to place Americans under a heavy In October of that year he visited Santa Fe to Others who might be listed, even If lack of debt of gratitude to him. paint some more pictures but Instead he Joined space prevents discussion of their contributions, Catlin not only painted hundreds of pictures the famous march of General Kearney and his are: CapL Seth Eastman, a teacher of drawing v; but he made a big collection of Indian objects dragoons from Santa Fe to San Diego, taking at the United States Military academy at West M —dress, weapons, scalps, objects used In games, part In several engagements which marked the Point, who saw service In the Indian country articles of clothing, ornaments, etc. With all phase of the Mexican war that was fought In 4M and was chosen to Illustrate “Historical and te#!; ! of these he made a tour of the East, exhibiting California. Vi f Statistical Information Respecting the History, ■ X his collections in the larger cities and every­ Going north the next year Stanley found some Condition and Future Prospects of the Indian where attracting large crowds. more excitement awaiting him, for he narrowly Tribes of the United States,” issued by the gov­ It seems unfortunate that Catlin could not escaped being In the Whitman massacre when ernment In 1850; Carl Wlmar, a German artist have profited more from his work while he lived. that famous missionary, his wife and 11 others who lived among the Indians for six months in ./*n For In his old age he lost the fortune which he were killed by malcontents of the Cayuso tribe. 1857 and some of whose paintings are preserved ‘M tej&j! had built up, became a bankrupt. In fact, until He had another narrow escape from death a in his adopted city, St. Louis; F. O. C. Darley, all he had left was his gallery of some 600 or short time later when he returned to San Fran­ the leading illustrator of books and magazine is x/-: more of bis Indian paintings. These he would not cisco to take a certain ship for the return to articles three quarters of a century ago; and M. Andre Lefebvre de Laboulaye sell but gave them to the Smithsonian Institu­ New York via Gape Horn. He barely missed George DeForcst Brush, who Is still living and who will succeed Paul Claude) as Children who are members of the Dal Nippon Gokoku Dan, one at tion for safekeeping as an Imperishable record the ship before It sailed and It was lost at sea whose “studies of the Indian have helped to es­ French ambassador to the United many patriotic associations new flourishing In Japan as a result of tbs of his life work and of a vanishing race. Some and never heard of again. Next Stanley went to tablish the redskin la an Important place In the States. M. Laboulaye Is an expert events In Manchuria, shown loading trucks With the various articles they •f them were destroyed or Injured in a fire which Hawaii where he painted the portraits of the art history of America." enced diplomat and a friend of have donated and collected sud which art to be skipped to tbs soldi era «wept the institution In January, 1866, but the famous King Kamahameha HI and hla queen, (• br W«»Uni Kewvpapvr Union.) I Frealdent Roosevelt. ln Jehol province. 2- «

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