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Catlin and Party Stalking Buffalo in Texas
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1846-1848
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 20 x 27 3/8 in. (50.8 x 69.4 cm)
- Culture
- Texas
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
“The buffalo bull often grows to the enormous weight of 2000 pounds, and shakes a long and shaggy black mane, that falls in great profusion and confusion, over his head and shoulders; and oftentimes falling down quite to the ground. The horns are short, but very large, and have but one turn, i.e. they are a simple arch, without the least approach to a spiral form, like those of the common ox, or of the goat species.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, no. 31, 1841; reprint 1973)
