![]() The artist signed the work in the lower right corner: “Albert Bierstadt.” A few wispy white clouds float across the watery blue sky above. Forms along the horizon could be a line of clouds or snow-covered moutains in the deep distance. A few trees rise on the plain but the land is mostly flat until it reaches the mountains and cliffs along the horizon, which comes halfway up this composition. Hundreds of buffalo dot the landscape along the banks of the winding river and some wade in the water. The dozen or so buffalo nearby, as well as a fox and two deer, move away from the hunters, headed to our left. A little distance away to our right, along the edge of the canvas, seven hunters gallop into the scene, leaning forward over their horses’ necks. A smaller buffalo looks on from our left, and a prairie dog pokes its head out of hole in the ground in the lower left corner. Sage-green grass grows in tufts on the dirt ground, which is littered with several animal skulls around the charging buffalo and rider. He wears a pumpkin-orange loincloth and red and orange bands encircle the ankle, thigh, wrist, and upper arm facing us. ![]() ![]() #Art view of buffalo art.com skin#Facing away from us, the rider has light brown skin and a feather headdress over long dark hair. ![]() Just beyond the corpses, one hunter rides a rearing white horse as he lifts a spear lined with feathers high over a charging buffalo to our right of center. Several dead or injured buffalo lie across the ground close to us, along with the body of one hunter, barely visible between the bodies of two animals. The scene is lit with golden light that warms the browns and harvest yellow of the landscape. A band of indigenous Americans ride horses toward and through a herd of buffalo, which spreads along a river that winds through plains to mountains in the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting. ![]()
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