ABSTRACT
Among the many artists who depicted the North American Indians, Charles Bird King (1785–1862) was the first white man to record in oils the physical appearances and picturesque dress costumes of many Indian leaders of the Great Plains tribes. It is doubtful if Charles Bird King ever saw an Indian village … Except for those intrepid paintbrush pioneers, George Catlin and John Mix Stanley who traveled extensively … in Indian country, no other artist in the pre-camera period painted a larger or more varied series of Indian portraits. (Ewers 1954, 463)
