Hiawatha (painting)
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| Artist | Thomas Eakins |
| Year | 1874 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Romantic |
| Location | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
Hiawatha is an 1874 oil-on-canvas painting by Thomas Eakins. It depicts the Native American leader Hiawatha in an impressionistic style, one of the only non-Realist paintings Eakins ever completed.[1] It was inspired by Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha.
The oil-on-canvas version shown here was a study for a larger watercolor piece that was ultimately accidentally destroyed in the 1940s.[2][3]