Two painters traveled up the Missouri River within a year of each other, George Catlin in 1832 and Karl Bodmer in 1833.  They had very different temperaments and very different styles for documenting the same Indian villages, the same chiefs, the same sacred rituals, the same bison herds, the same river bluffs.  Catlin and Bodmer also illustrated how each tribe painted accounts of their own lives in their own styles on tipis, drums, and buffalo hides.  Their paintings provide a rich visual record of the High Plains at a unique time in history:  after Lewis & Clark, but before the arrival of railways and photography.

 

Kristi Hager, painter & photographer

Sunday, November 6th at 7:00 pm

Canyon Community Center

126 Lion Blvd, Springdale

 

Audience members will be asked to consider whether they would prefer a portrait or a photograph of Mandan leader Ma-To-Toh-Pa (Four Bears), or his buffalo robe depicting his victories with his own hand.