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Mee cheet e neuh, Wounded Bear’s Shoulder, Wife of the Chief
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: George Catlin
A museum quality hand-painted oil reproduction of Mee cheet e neuh, Wounded Bear’s Shoulder, Wife of the Chief by George Catlin, painted on canvas with the layered surface of the original.
Description
Description
Broad, confident strokes lay in the ground first, a warm field against which the sitter takes shape in firmer, more deliberate touches around the face and shoulders. The palette stays close to earth tones, ochre, umber, muted red, with the paint kept thin in the background and built up where the features and adornment demand attention. Edges soften into the surrounding field rather than cutting sharply against it, a method that lets the figure emerge gradually the longer one looks.
About Mee Cheet E Neuh, Wounded Bear’s
The painting belongs to the body of work Catlin produced while travelling among the Plains tribes in the 1830s, recording individuals by name and standing rather than as generic types. Mee cheet e neuh, Wounded Bear’s Shoulder, Wife of the Chief, is presented frontally, the pose steady and unadorned by incident, in keeping with Catlin practice of letting costume and bearing carry the description rather than narrative detail.
What holds the composition together is the relationship between the handled and unhandled passages, the built-up paint of the face against the thinner washes elsewhere, a hierarchy of attention that mirrors how the eye actually studies a portrait. There is little in the way of setting to distract from the sitter; the ground exists mainly to hold the figure in place and to let the flesh tones read as warm against something cooler.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum artists recreate this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, working in oil on artist-grade canvas and matching the palette stroke by stroke rather than reducing it to a flat printed surface. The layered paint keeps the texture of the original handling, the raised passages where pigment was built up and the thinner, more transparent ground, so the canvas carries real depth under raking light. Painted by a trained artist rather than run through a press, it reads as an object with its own surface rather than a copy at a distance. Hung where morning or lamp light can catch the paint at an angle, a study room, a hallway, or a wall beside a reading chair, it settles into the room quietly, holding attention without demanding it, the kind of steady presence that suits daily rather than occasional viewing.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on canvas, not a printed copy
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
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