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Buffalo

Alternate Title(s)
  • Buffalo Grazing
Artist/Maker Albert Bierstadt United States, born Germany, 1830 - 1902
Date1859
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensionsimage: 14 × 19 in. (35.6 × 48.3 cm) frame: 19 × 24 in. (48.3 × 61 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1993.026
ClassificationsPainting
Signedlower left
DescriptionA large bison lies down in a grassy field facing left. Another bison stands behind him to the right and other bisons can be seen further back in the field.
On View
Not on view
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