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DescriptionCól-lee, a Band Chief.jpg	English: Cól-lee, a Band Chief, 1834
Date	1834
Source	http://americanart.si.edu/images/1985/1985.66.285_1b.jpg
Author	George Catlin  (1796–1872)       Alternative names G. Catlin; Geo. Catlin; George Caitlin; George Bruce Catlin; Catlin Description American painter, artist, lawyer and writer Date of birth/death 26 July 1796  23 December 1872  Location of birth/death Wilkes-Barre Jersey City Work location Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Washington Authority file : Q455133 VIAF: 88688790 ISNI: 0000000109228325 ULAN: 500004854 LCCN: n50035819 NAID: 10582045 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q455133
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“An aged and dignified chief. … This man … as well as a very great proportion of the Cherokee population, has a mixture of red and white blood in his veins, of which, in this instance, the first seems decidedly to predominate” (Letters and Notes, vol. 2, p. 119, pl. 217).

Painted at Fort Gibson in 1834. Catlin refers to the subject as Jol-lee in Letters and Notes.

The oil portrait has been modeled with a vivacity and assurance that almost equals number 284, but the Gilcrease watercolor, for once, also looks much like a life study (fig. 146). The subject is half-length in the latter, and a chair back is visible behind his right shoulder. The Smithsonian portrait more closely resembles plate 217 in Letters and Notes.

Cól-lee appears again, full length, in cartoon 71

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