Skip to main contentDescriptionBison paws ground in a winter landscape, against a dark, cloudy sky, with a herd of bison behind him.Curatorial Remarks
Belly Deep
Artist/Maker
Astley David Middleton Cooper
United States, 1856 - 1924
Date1886
Mediumoil on canvas board
Dimensionsimage: 24 1/4 x 29 1/2 in. (61.6 x 74.9 cm)
frame: 34 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (87.6 x 100.3 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with Funds Generously Donated by the Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM2007.070
ClassificationsPainting
On View
Not on viewPossibly references the Great Blizzard of 1886, which decimated cattle herds.
The bison population had already been decimated by eastern/human incursion by this point, with only a few small herds remaining.
The bison population had already been decimated by eastern/human incursion by this point, with only a few small herds remaining.
David Maass
David Shepherd
