Skip to main contentDescriptionA large cloud of dark smoke from a raging prairie fire moves across the plains as bison run from it. A red glow from the fire brightens the left side of the painting.
Prairie Fire & Buffalo Stampede
Artist/Maker
William Jacob Hays Sr.
United States, 1830 - 1875
Date1869
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 36 × 72 in. (91.4 × 182.9 cm)
frame: 48 × 84 in. (121.9 × 213.4 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1992.037
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned lower left?
On View
On viewKronheim & Co.
William Jacob Hays Sr.