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The Last of the Buffalo (Near Cora, WY.)
The Last of the Buffalo (Near Cora, WY.)

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 LinePete Widener, Jr., National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1998.094
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Categorywildlife
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on view
DescriptionTwo 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
Rungius 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.