Portrait of a Native American Girl by George Catlin, 1832 | Vintage Art Print

Pshán-shaw, Sweet-scented Grass, Twelve-year-old Daughter of Bloody Hand by George Catlin, 1832. This portrait depicts an Arikara girl who was the daughter of a chief. The Arikara, or Sahnish, trace their origins to Central America and then migrated through present day Texas and Louisiana. Catlin declared "If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me from visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America." His drive to capture with canvas and paint the essence of Indian life and culture was his life's work and hundreds of his works became the original Indian Gallery of the Smithsonian. 

Our vintage art prints are printed in-house of a small 100% women owned studio, Rock Paper Scissors, in New York, New York, on archival heavyweight matte paper with fine art pigment-based ink.