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Tchung kee, a Mandan Game Played with a Ring and Pole
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: George Catlin
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A close, animated scene of a Mandan ring and pole game, rendered by George Catlin and offered here as a hand-painted oil on canvas true to his original brushwork and palette.
Description
Description
A modestly scaled canvas holds an animated field of action: figures bent low, arms extended, the ring and pole caught mid-motion. The proportions keep the viewer close, near enough to follow individual gestures rather than survey the scene from a distance, which suits a picture built on the choreography of a single contest rather than a sweeping landscape.
About Tchung Kee, a Mandan Game Played
George Catlin painted this scene of a game played among the Mandan as part of his sustained effort to record the peoples of the Missouri River in the 1830s, working directly from observation during his travels through the upper plains. The composition is organised around the ring and pole themselves, the objects of the game, with the players arranged in a loose arc that carries the eye from one figure to the next without settling on any single form for too long. Bodies lean and pivot in postures caught at the height of effort, and Catlin renders each with the quick, descriptive economy that marks his field studies rather than his more formal studio portraits.
Light falls evenly across the group, avoiding dramatic shadow in favour of a clarity that keeps every figure legible, an approach consistent with the documentary intention behind Catlin work among Native American communities. The palette stays close to earth tones, ochres and browns set against a muted sky and ground, with small passages of brighter colour marking ornament and skin paint. The brushwork is direct rather than blended, laid down with the pace of an artist recording a fast-moving event rather than composing at leisure, and that directness is part of what gives the scene its sense of immediacy.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum artists produce this piece as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, working in oil on canvas rather than through any printed process. Each figure, the arc of the composition, and the specific balance of ochre and muted sky are matched by eye against the original, and the brushwork is rebuilt stroke by stroke so the surface carries the same directness Catlin worked with. As an oil on canvas reproduction it preserves the raised texture of applied paint, the slight unevenness of a hand-laid layer, details that carry the character of the original picture in a way no flat print can.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready for display
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Free worldwide shipping, with no charge to any country
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