Buffalo Bulls in a Wallow
1837-1839
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.9 × 73.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137817
“In the heat of summer,” George Catlin wrote, “these huge animals, which no doubt, suffer very much with the great profusion of their long and shaggy hair or fur, often graze on the low grounds in the prairies, where there is a little stagnant water lying amongst the grass, and the ground underneath being saturated with it, is soft, into which the enormous bull, lowered down upon one knee, will p…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1837-1839 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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