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Ha won je tah, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: George Catlin
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A calm, direct portrait by George Catlin, Ha won je tah, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe, hand-painted in oil for its steady gaze and quiet, dignified presence.
Description
Description
A single ornament catches the eye first: a curved horn, pale against dark hair, set at the crown of the head like a mark of rank rather than decoration. It is the detail that gives the sitter his name, One Horn, and Catlin builds the whole portrait around its quiet authority.
About Ha Won Je Tah, One Horn,
The composition holds close to the subject, chest and shoulders filling most of the canvas, so that nothing distracts from the face and its steady, forward gaze. Catlin paints the skin in warm, even tones and lets the light fall gently across the cheekbones, giving the head chief of the Miniconjou a calm, upright bearing. Ornament and clothing are described with care but without fuss; each bead, each fold of hide, sits in its place and adds weight to the figure without crowding him.
This portrait belongs to the body of work Catlin made among the Plains nations in the 1830s, when he travelled widely to record leaders and communities before, as he feared, their ways of life were changed beyond recognition. The paint handling is direct and unlaboured, closer to field notation than studio polish, and that directness gives the picture its sense of a moment actually witnessed rather than staged.
ByMuseum recreates this image as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked in oil on canvas by a trained painter rather than produced by any printing process. The artist studies the original brushwork, the warmth of the skin tones, and the exact placement of the horn ornament, then rebuilds the painting layer by layer so the surface carries real texture, not a flat scan of one. It is a handmade oil painting in the fullest sense: each version is painted individually, so brush marks, edges, and the depth of the colour vary slightly from canvas to canvas, the way they would in any painting made by hand.
The hand-painted reproduction
What survives the transfer from original to reproduction is the likeness itself: the set of the shoulders, the directness of the gaze, the particular tone Catlin found for the skin and the horn, and the restrained way he framed a leader without theatre. Those are the details a print tends to flatten and a hand-painted canvas can hold onto.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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