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The Days of the Bison Millions, American Buffalo in Northwest Wyoming

Alternate Title(s)
  • The Days of Bison Millions (Looking West Toward the Wyoming Range)
  • In the Days of the Bison Millions
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1917
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 69 × 90 in. (175.3 × 228.6 cm) frame: 74 × 102 1/2 in. (188 × 260.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Jackson Hole Preserve, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1994.081
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
DescriptionA herd of bison move across a rough and grassy terrain with a cloudy blue sky. One large bison is close to the foreground on the left side following the pack to the right. From the New York Zoological Society collection.
On View
On view
Exhibitions
Gray Wolf, Wyoming
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1927
American Black Bear
Carl Rungius
1929
Red Fox
Carl Rungius
1933
Canadian Lynx
Carl Rungius
1931
Bay Lynx
Carl Rungius
1931
White Tail Deer
Carl Rungius
1933
American Bison or Buffalo
John James Audubon
1849 - 1851
Pack Train (3 horses)
Carl Rungius
c. 1920