Elk and Buffalo Grazing among Prairie Flowers, Texas
1846-1848
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.7 × 70 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135084
During his travels through the western frontier, George Catlin saw the incredible numbers of buffalo that lived on the Plains. He called them “noble animals,” and understood that overhunting in the West would destroy them, “leaving these beautiful green fields a vast and idle waste.” He saw them “grazing on the plains of the country to which they appropriately belong.” “Their colour is a dark bro…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1846-1848 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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