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Co ee ha jo, a Chief
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: George Catlin
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A hand-painted oil reproduction of Co ee ha jo, a Chief by George Catlin, rebuilt in layered oil colour to preserve the directness of the original frontier portrait.
Description
Description
Much of the output of George Catlin came from a restless documentary impulse, a painter travelling among the tribes of the American frontier to set down likenesses before, as he feared, they vanished from memory. Co ee ha jo, a Chief belongs to that larger project, but it narrows the ambition to a single steady encounter: one sitter, rendered with the directness of a working portraitist rather than the grandeur of history painting.
About Co Ee Ha Jo, a Chief
The composition keeps its attention close to the face and bearing of the subject, allowing costume and ornament to register without overwhelming the sense of an individual presence. Catlin worked quickly in the field, often under difficult conditions, and that urgency shows here in a handling that favours clarity over refinement, broad passages of tone meeting more searching detail around the eyes and the set of the mouth. Light falls evenly across the figure, avoiding theatrical contrast, which lets the picture read as record and portrait at once rather than as staged drama.
Colour is restrained and earthbound, built from the ochres, browns, and muted reds that recur across the artist career, with small accents where adornment catches the eye. The paint surface is direct rather than blended to a high finish, a working method suited to a painter who moved from sitter to sitter across considerable distances and needed each likeness fixed before the moment passed. Seen today, the portrait carries the weight of that circumstance, a document of presence made under pressure and made to last.
The hand-painted reproduction
Reproducing this canvas is a matter of rebuilding it stroke by stroke rather than reproducing it by machine. A trained painter works from the original palette, matching the ochres and muted reds passage by passage, and builds the surface in successive layers of oil so that the final canvas carries real texture rather than a flat, printed image. This is an oil painting reproduction in the fullest sense, hand-painted by a professional artist who follows the original brushwork rather than approximating it, so the raised ridges of paint and the visible hand of the maker remain part of the finished object.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed reproduction
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it will hang on
- Gallery-ready presentation for immediate display
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- 90 day returns, with a full refund or a free replacement and no restocking fee
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