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    		• Bierstadt, Albert,
     
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    		• Landscape -- Wyoming
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Equestrian
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Indian
     
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    		• Animal -- Buffalo
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    The Last of the Buffalo, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter.
    Title: 
    The Last of the Buffalo, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1888.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    71 1/4 x 119 1/4 in. (181.0 x 302.9 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower right:) Albert Bierstadt signed
    Description: 
    Arid western landscape with an Indian on horseback about to thrust a spear into a buffalo charging at him from the side. To the left another buffalo eyes the scene as other Indians on horseback ride in from the right. In the foreground groups of dead bufflo lie on the ground, with the skeletal remains of others scattered around them. In the background a river winds its way toward the horizon, where clouds are highlighted by the setting sun.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Wyoming
    Figure male -- Full length
    Equestrian
    Ethnic -- Indian
    Animal -- Buffalo
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20565
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Bierstadt, Albert, Mrs.,
    Formerly in the collection of Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th Street, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20006 until 2014.
    Exhibitions: 
    Paris Salon of 1889, Paris, 1889.
    Remarks: 
    Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1889 as "Chasse aux bisons."
    Former Corcoran Gallery of Art accession number: 09.12
    References: 
    "A catalogue of the collection of American paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art; volume 1," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, pg. 127.
    "Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary," New York, NY: Wildenstein, 1959, pg. 52.
    Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pg. 188.
    Cash, Sarah, with Terri Sultan, "American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," New York: Abbeville Press, 2000, pg. 83.
    Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, no. 205, CL-56.
    Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pg. 100 and 259.
    Baigell, Matthew, "Albert Bierstadt," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pl. 25.
    Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 86.
    Cash, Sarah, ed., "Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945," Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011, pg. 170.
    National Gallery of Art, collection printout, "Acquisitions from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," 2015.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    "A catalogue of the collection of American paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art; volume 1," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, pg. 127.
    "Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary," New York, NY: Wildenstein, 1959, pg. 52.
    Fink, Lois Marie, "American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons," Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990, fig. 85.
    American Art Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, 1973, p. 83.
    Cash, Sarah, with Terri Sultan, "American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," New York: Abbeville Press, 2000, pg. 83.
    Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, pg. 282.
    Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, fig. 67 and pl. no. 68.
    Baigell, Matthew, "Albert Bierstadt," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pl. 25.
    Cash, Sarah, ed., "Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945," Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011, pg. 172-173.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 08260196
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