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Reproduced in Whitney, et al, 1904, Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art
Image: Reproduced in Whitney, et al, 1904, Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art
The Last of the Herd
Reproduced in Whitney, et al, 1904, Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art

The Last of the Herd

Artist/Maker, United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1904
MediumGouache and Ink on Paper*
Dimensions18 x 12 in.*
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0247
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; Macmillan Company
Illustration
Caspar Whitney, Owen Wister, and George Bird Grinnell. Musk-Ox, Sheep and Goat. The American Sportsman Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904, illustrated p. 109.
DescriptionOne bison bull stands on the prairie in profile with his head turned to look back toward a setting sun. A buffalo skull is in the lower right foreground.Bibliography