Artwork Details
- Title
- Buffalo Cow, Grazing on the Prairie
- Artist
- Date
- 1832-1833
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 24 x 29 in. (60.9 x 73.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Western
- Landscape — plain
- Animal — buffalo
- Object Number
- 1985.66.405
Artwork Description
“The cow is less in stature [than the bull], and less ferocious . . . and always distinguishable by the peculiar shape of the horns, which are much smaller and more crooked, turning their points more in towards the centre of the forehead.” George Catlin made this sketch on the Upper Missouri in 1832. (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 1, nos. 4, 31, 1841; reprint 1973)