Member Preview Days | Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer

A watercolor of an Indigenous man wearing a feathered headdress, body paint, a beaded rope around his neck, and holding a bow and arrow.

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Event Date

  • Saturday, October 29, 2022, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Carter members and their guests have the first chance to view Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer. Highlighting the diverse histories of the Omaha, Ponca, Yankton, Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Assiniboine, and Blackfoot Nations, this exhibition features over 60 recently conserved watercolor portraits from the mid-1800s and offers added layers of contemporary Indigenous artists’ and scholars’ voices.

Free for members. No registration required. Bring your membership card to the Information Desk for admittance. Not a member? Join today!

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Image: Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), Péhriska-Rúhpa, Hidatsa Man, watercolor and graphite on paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.49.275. Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

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