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Wi jun jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head, a Distinguished Young Warrior
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: George Catlin
A hand-painted oil reproduction of Wi jun jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head by George Catlin, the double portrait that traces one man remade by his journey east.
Description
Description
Meet the gaze first. A young Assiniboine man stands turned in profile and confrontation at once, dressed in a hybrid of traditional dress and the borrowed trappings of a visiting dignitary, a fan of feathers against a military coat, a face paint pattern set against the flat, pale ground the artist favoured for his sitters. The light falls evenly across him, without drama, so that every ornament and every gesture of his stance reads clearly, and nothing in the background competes for your eye.
About Wi Jun Jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head,
George Catlin painted this double portrait of Wi jun jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head, a Distinguished Young Warrior after the young man had travelled east to Washington and returned home again, and the picture is built around that journey as much as around the man himself. One side of the composition shows him in the regalia he wore before he left; the other shows him remade by contact with the capital, in a plumed hat and a frock coat, holding a fan and an umbrella with the same unassuming ease he once held a pipe. Catlin was not composing a satire so much as recording a change he had witnessed and clearly found unsettling, and the plainness of his brushwork, the flat colour, the unfussy modelling of the face, serves that documentary purpose rather than any decorative one. It belongs to the years Catlin spent among the peoples of the Missouri River in the early 1830s, when he was working fast, often from life, to build the record that would become his Indian Gallery.
Our painters recreate this double image as a genuine oil painting reproduction, working layer by layer on artist-grade canvas rather than reproducing the composition by mechanical print. Each version is a hand-painted replica, matched to the original palette and rebuilt brushstroke by brushstroke, so the paint sits on the canvas with real thickness and the surface catches light the way an oil painting does rather than lying flat under glass. What arrives at your door is a painted object with its own texture and depth, not a copy pulled from a printer.
The hand-painted reproduction
Hung where the light crosses it in the late afternoon, the two halves of the composition seem to speak to each other across the room, a quiet, thoughtful presence for a study, a hallway, or anywhere you want a painting that asks to be looked at twice rather than glanced past once.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, brushwork by brushwork
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- 90 day returns with a full refund or a free replacement, no restocking fee
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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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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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