Hiawatha (painting)

Hiawatha
ArtistThomas Eakins
Year1874
MediumOil on canvas
MovementRomantic
LocationHirshhorn 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. 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.

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