Who created "The Last of the Buffalo"?

The Last of the Buffalo was created by Albert Bierstadt in 1888-1889.

When was "The Last of the Buffalo" created?

This artwork was created 1888-1889.

What medium is "The Last of the Buffalo"?

The Last of the Buffalo is oil on canvas.

Is "The Last of the Buffalo" in the public domain?

Yes, The Last of the Buffalo is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

The Last of the Buffalo

Albert Bierstadt

1888-1889

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 180.3 × 301.63 cm (71 × 118 3/4 in.) framed: 217.17 × 339.09 × 15.24 cm (85 1/2 × 133 1/2 × 6 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CAB

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mary Stewart Bierstadt [Mrs. Albert Bierstadt])

Accession Number

2014.79.5

About the Artist

Albert Bierstadt · 1830–1902

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a German-American landscape painter renowned for his monumental, luminous depictions of the American West. As a prominent member of the second generation of the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School, Bierstadt created sweeping panoramas that captured the sublime grandeur of untamed wilderness with unprecedented theatrical scale and romantic vision. His ...

The Last of the Buffalo

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