Skip to main contentDescriptionTwo bison stand in an open field at sunset. The scene is colored with purple, pink, yellow. Clouds in the sky. One bison stands facing left while another in the distance faces the viewer. Two plus bison.Curatorial Remarks
The Last of the Buffalo (Near Cora, WY.)
Alternate Title(s)
- The Last of the Herd
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1900
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 1/2 × 45 1/2 in. (72.4 × 115.6 cm)
frame: 35 × 52 1/4 in. (88.9 × 132.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Pete Widener, Jr., National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1998.094
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius
Region
Categorywildlife
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on viewRungius letter dated August 27, 1944, indicates that Norman James owned three paintings in the 1944 Kende Galleries of Gimbel Brothers auction: Dying Moose, CC.0257, Antelopes CC.1010, and The Last of the Buffalo, W1998.094.
William de la Montagne Cary
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