Showing posts with label American Notes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Notes. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

George Catlin's American Indian Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

No lie - you've got until June 23rd
Last time, I was engaging in a little cultural time-travel with my Walter Scott field-trip - attempting to resurrect, on an individual level at least, an association between a place and a book that had faded away long ago. Yesterday, now I sit and think about it, I was engaged in a similar process of time-slippage when I finally made it, just in time, to the National Portrait Gallery's pretty wonderful George Catlin exhibition.