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3. Souvenir of the North American Indians. The New York Public Library. 



New York City. 

 Bound volumes containing 167 plates of pencil drawings with page of 

 explanation opposite each plate. Drawings executed in Europe ante 1852. 

 Includes many replicas of original Indian Gallery subjects. Portraits com- 

 monly full-length and three or more to a plate. In addition there are por- 

 traits of Indians of North America west of Rockies seen by Catlin in 1850's 

 and facsimiles of painted bufCalo robes presumably owned by the artist. 



4. The North American Indiana in the Middle Nineteenth Century. The Ilenry 



E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. San Marino, Calif. 

 155 pencil drawings, many identical to those in New York Public Library 

 (see No. 3 above), and 50 oil-on-paper cartoons, many identical to those in 

 American Museum of Natural History (see No. 2 above). 



5. The New York Historical Society. New York City. 



221 pencil and pen-and-ink drawings, many of them very similar if not 

 identical to No. 3 above. (See Holloway, 1942.) 



6. Souvenir of the North American Indians. The Newberry Library, Ayer 



Collection. Chicago, 

 Bound volumes comprising 217 pencil portraits, one to a page. Title page 

 signed "Geo. Catlin, 1852." Includes portraits of Indians west of Rockies 

 not seen by Catlin until 1850's. 



7. Yale University Library. New Haven, Conn. 



Two bound volumes comprising 216 pencil portraits, one to a page. Similar 

 to No. 6 above. Also 3 oil portraits on cardboard, 



8. The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. Tulsa, Okla. 



Set of watercolor replicas of Indian Gallery subjects. (Haberly, 1948, 

 p. 233.) Mrs. Owen A. Teague, Registrar, has informed me that this col- 

 lection comprises approximately 150 Catlin watercolors and 75 oil paintings. 



9. New York State Library. Albany, N. Y. 



Bound volume containing 100 watercolor replicas of Indian Gallery oil 

 paintings. (Haberly, 1948, p. 233.) 



10. The University Museum. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pa. 



8 oil paintings, including the unfinished study of Keokuk on horseback 

 reproduced in Haberly (1948, p. 129), and the series of 4 Mandan Okipa 

 Ceremony scenes. 



11, The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, Canada. 



33 oil paintings the majority of which are wildlife and hunting scenes. 



There are in addition to these 11 collections several small collections 

 of Catlin's works in other libraries and museums in the United States. 

 Catlin was unusually industrious as a copier of his own works in oils, 

 watercolors, pencil, and pen-and-ink. Other artists of the precamera 

 period commonly redrew or repainted their most popular works. But 

 Catlin made replicas of literally hundreds of his pictures. Some of 

 his more popular ones he must have copied more than a half-dozen 

 times. As I have shown in plates 18 and 15 of this article, Catlin 

 sometimes sharpened the details or elaborated upon the Indian Gallery 

 oil painting when he redrew the subject in pencil. Consequently some 

 of his later scenes in Indian life are more revealing as pictorial docu- 

 ments than are the presumed originals from which they were adapted. 

 There are also a fair number of scenes among the later pencil draw- 



