Buffalo Dance, Oklahoma

Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear, Buffalo Dance, Oklahoma, n.d., watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Ford Motor Company, 1966.36.90
Paul Flying Eagle Goodbear, Buffalo Dance, Oklahoma, n.d., watercolor, 12 3419 in. (32.448.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Ford Motor Company, 1966.36.90

Artwork Details

Title
Buffalo Dance, Oklahoma
Date
n.d.
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
12 3419 in. (32.448.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Ford Motor Company
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — Oklahoma
  • Ceremony — Indian
  • Ceremony — dance — Buffalo Dance
  • Indian
  • Western
  • Figure group
Object Number
1966.36.90

Works by this artist (1 item)

A. Kinder or Rinder, Drawing on Door, 1887, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1952.13.82
Drawing on Door
Date1887
oil on canvas
On view

Exhibitions

Media - 1985.66.404 - SAAM-1985.66.404_1 - 9039
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists
October 11, 2019March 13, 2020
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists examines representations of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans on the Great Plains in the 1830s and in the twentieth century.

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The Runaway Match
Date1877
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John Henry Twachtman, Figure in Sunlight (Artist's Wife), ca. 1890-1900, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.137
Figure in Sunlight (Artist’s Wife)
Dateca. 1890-1900
oil on canvas
On view
Unidentified (Italian), Saint, 19th century, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1952.13.157
Saint
Artist
Unidentified (Italian)
Date19th century
oil on canvas
Not on view