Learn about Swiss-born artist Karl Bodmer's extraordinary watercolor portraits of the North American interior and its Indigenous people. Bodmer created them from 1833 through 1834 while traveling from St. Louis up the Missouri River, through the lands of the Omaha, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Blackfoot, among others.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/karl-bodmer-north-american-portraits
Insider Insights and captioning are made possible by the Ruth Lapham Lloyd Trust.
Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum?sub_confirmation=1
#TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum
© 2021 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits
Learn about Swiss-born artist Karl Bodmer's extraordinary watercolor portraits of the North American interior and its Indigenous people.
20 min. watch
More from The Met
Audio
“For me, living and producing textiles goes along with your life, along with your age, along with your everyday activity, that's why it is a living art, it’s not a piece that's from the past.”
July 14
How did eighteenth-century European art subtly obscure Black labor and promote subjection?
Adrienne L. Childs
July 1
