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Toh to wah kon da pee, Blue Medicine, a Medicine Man of the Ting ta to ah Band
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: George Catlin
A hand-painted oil reproduction of Blue Medicine, a medicine man of the Ting ta to ah band, painted by Catlin with the quiet directness of his field portraits.
Description
Description
Portraits from the Catlin Indian Gallery hold to a modest, upright scale, the sitter placed close to the picture plane so the frame reads almost like a doorway rather than a window. Standing before a canvas of this proportion, a viewer meets the subject at something close to conversational distance, which is exactly the effect the composition wants: the eye goes first to the face, then settles into the details of dress and adornment that surround it. That governing intimacy is worth noting before anything else, because it shapes how the painting will sit on a wall long after the first look.
About Toh to Wah Kon Da Pee,
The subject named in the title, Toh to wah kon da pee, Blue Medicine, a medicine man of the Ting ta to ah band, is presented with the directness that runs through the whole of the Catlin Indian Gallery. The pose is frontal or near frontal, the background kept plain so that nothing competes with the sitter, and the paint handling stays economical rather than showy, a working method suited to the pace at which Catlin travelled and recorded. Ornament, paint, and regalia are rendered with enough particularity to function as ethnographic record, while the face carries the individual weight of a specific person rather than a type.
Colour is used sparingly and with purpose: a passage of red or ochre against a subdued ground draws the eye precisely where the composition needs it, and the tonal range stays narrow enough to keep the figure legible even from across a room. This restraint belongs to the broader realist temper of Catlin work of the 1830s, made in the field among the Plains and Missouri River peoples rather than composed later from memory or hearsay, and it gives the picture an evidentiary calm that outlasts the drama of more theatrical portraiture from the period.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum recreates this composition as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, worked in oil on artist-grade canvas by a trained painter rather than output by any printing process. The palette is matched passage by passage, the brushwork left visible where Catlin built form with economy, and the surface given the texture of layered pigment rather than the flatness of ink on paper. Each canvas is a handmade oil painting made to order, so no two copies are perfectly identical, and the result is an object with the depth and presence of a painted surface, suited to a study, a library, or any room where a visitor is meant to stop and look closely rather than glance in passing.
- Hand-painted in oil on canvas by a trained artist
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the room
- Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included
- 90 day returns, full refund or free replacement, no restocking fee
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