Mash kee wet, a Great Dandy

Name: Mash kee wet, a Great Dandy
Brand: ByMuseum
SKU: BM20135
Price: 259.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $518.00.Current price is: $259.00.

Artist: George Catlin

Mash kee wet, a Great Dandy by George Catlin, hand-painted in oil on canvas with the composure and careful ornament that set this portrait apart from his usual field studies.

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SKU: BM20135 Category: George Catlin

Mash kee wet, a Great Dandy by George Catlin - hand-painted oil reproduction

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Description

Most of the paintings George Catlin made among the Plains and Prairie nations are group scenes, or portraits set against a plain, neutral ground, the sitter placed front and centre with little else to look at. Mash kee wet, a Great Dandy breaks from that pattern in small but telling ways. The figure is still the point of the picture, but Catlin gives him a self-possession that reads as much through posture as through paint, and the attention paid to ornament and dress goes further than in many of his more workmanlike studies.

About Mash Kee Wet, a Great Dandy

The title itself signals the approach. A dandy is a man who dresses with care and knows it, and Catlin paints his sitter accordingly, alert to the cut of his clothing, the arrangement of his hair, the way he holds himself for the artist. The palette stays close to the earth tones and warm ochres typical of Catlin, but here they are handled with more patience, built up around the finer passages of costume and adornment that carry the picture. Light falls evenly, without drama, in keeping with the documentary intent behind so much of the work Catlin produced on his travels through Indian Territory in the 1830s, when he set out to record Native American leaders and daily life before, as he believed, that world disappeared. Yet the steadiness of the light here also lets the sitter hold his own composure, and that quiet confidence is what separates this canvas from the more hurried likenesses Catlin sometimes turned out in the field.

ByMuseum recreates this painting as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked in oil on artist-grade cotton canvas by a trained painter rather than printed by machine. The aim is to match the palette of the original, the tonal shifts across the face and dress, and the visible brushwork that gives the surface its life, so that what arrives is a painted object with real texture, not a flat copy. Anyone who wants a fine art reproduction that holds up to close inspection, with the ridges and thin passages of paint still readable on the surface, will find that quality built into every canvas Catlin study we produce.

The hand-painted reproduction

Live with this painting for a while and it keeps giving something back. The set of the shoulders, the small details of ornament, the calm in the face: none of it announces itself at once, and each becomes more visible with repeated looking, the way a good portrait should reward patience rather than exhaust itself in a glance.

Hand-painted in oil on canvas by a trained artist
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Mash kee wet, a Great Dandy

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