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Indians in Council, California
Artist	Albert Bierstadt
Year	1872 (1872)
Medium	Oil on paper on canvas
Movement	Hudson River School
Subject	Native Americans
Dimensions	15 7/8 x 21 7/8 in. (40.4 x 55.5 cm.)
Location	Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Indians in Council, California is an 1872 oil landscape painting by the Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt. The painting was made amidst Bierstadt's Yosemite and Sierra Nevada work, while he was residing in California. He felt that Native American life was "rapidly passing away" and it was an artist's duty to "tell ... their history".

See also

• List of works by Albert Bierstadt

References

1. "Smithsonian: Indians in Council, California". Americanart.sio.edu. Retrieved 28 November 2018.

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