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Ki ho go waw shu shee, Brave Chief, Chief of the Tribe
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: George Catlin
Own Ki ho go waw shu shee, Brave Chief, Chief of the Tribe by George Catlin as a hand-painted replica on canvas, its brushwork and palette matched with patient, traditional craftsmanship.
Description
Description
In the early 1830s, George Catlin travelled up the Missouri River into territory few artists of European descent had reached, determined to record the appearance and dignity of Native leaders before, as he feared, their world vanished under westward expansion. Ki ho go waw shu shee, Brave Chief, Chief of the Tribe, belongs to this campaign of portraiture undertaken far from any studio, often completed in a single sitting under difficult conditions and with the sitter present in full regalia.
About Ki Ho Go Waw Shu Shee,
The composition holds close to convention for these frontier portraits: the chief faces the viewer directly, his bearing upright, his ornaments and dress rendered with the same attention as his features. Catlin was not a technician of academic finish, and that is part of the strength of the picture. His brush moves quickly over passages of costume and hair while lingering on the face, so that the eye is drawn first to the expression and only afterwards to the beadwork, the feathers, or the paint that marks status and identity.
Light falls evenly across the sitter, avoiding dramatic shadow in favour of clarity, a choice that suited both the ethnographic purpose of the project and the practical demands of working in the field. Colour is kept within a restrained range, so that the ochres and earth tones of skin and dress sit against a plain ground with little competing incident. This directness gives the portrait its documentary weight and its lasting human presence, qualities that place it firmly within the Realist impulse to record what stood in front of the artist rather than to idealise it.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum recreates this portrait as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked by a trained painter directly onto canvas rather than output by a printer. The palette is matched pigment by pigment against the original tones, the visible brushwork of the face and costume is followed stroke for stroke, and the oil is built up in layers so the surface carries the same texture and depth as a traditional replica painting made by hand. The result is a physical object with weight and grain, not a flat facsimile.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed copy
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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