The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-31
CstiIa's INDIAN Portraits,


/ first white settlements, are the EARL
/ est that now survive. Ere many de
cadcs copies will no doubt be made
from the originals in Washington for
| the State Historical society's art gal
/ leTy, and far the localities which they
specially depict
Catl,n's Indian portraits are monu-
ment that VIII not perish. In the ma
/ tional museum they are as safe from
| fire as any pictures in the world, and
/ they have been multiplied by engray-
/ ings 1t is only ten years that they
/ have been in the hands Of the govern
ment, enshrined III the niche they were
ordained to fill, but well-nigh all of
them have been finished for half cen
/ tury, and those works were begun full
/ sixty years ago. The only artist be-
/ fore George Catlin who painted many
| Indians III their own haunts was j. o.
/ Lewis, of whose labms ! once gave
some account in The Madison State
/ Journal. rs early as 1926 Lewis was
with Gen. Cass at Prairie du Chen
and took likenassps Of chiefs at the
council there, as well as at other
al,orioinsl oatborinos b,,t none it is
believed, west of the Mississippi. His
! e,-ot chas and nainfinoe Luno IN
Government huildinos NJ WASHINGTON
! till in 1860 they were lost by fire.
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/ louSeu III Ililh q passion 70 PANT lilelE
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/ all the more as he toreboded their
/ speedy extinction. The hrSQngS OF
his heart were the hTstl!ngS OF his
hand. Even earlier, IN 1926, he had
disclosed to the artist Harvey at his
/ New York studio, that 1t was the
ambition OF his life to become the
I thinner OF our apoTi9lneS. W lth lhlS
/ view he sold his law books and saved
/ his earnings as popular miniature
/ painter III Philadelphia and other
cities, and arrived with slender out
tit at st. Louis III 1880 Ills endeaVors
/ were at once aided by Governor Clark
who with Lewis had headed the first
white party which ever reached the
Pacific IN our ATTITUDES, and who al
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was taken by the governor to treaties
held with several tribes,-as Winnie
bagoS, Menomonees, ShaWanos, Kan
saS, SacS ana FoNes'-and afforded
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