Buffalo Hunt (color study for mural, East Wall, Recreation Room, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.)

Media - 1965.18.2 - SAAM-1965.18.2_1 - 65931
Copied Woodrow Crumbo, Buffalo Hunt (color study for mural, East Wall, Recreation Room, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.), 1939, gouache on paper, sheet: 2026 18 in. (50.866.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.2

Artwork Details

Title
Buffalo Hunt (color study for mural, East Wall, Recreation Room, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.)
Date
1939
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 2026 18 in. (50.866.2 cm)
Markings
lower right in gouache: Crumbo backing upper left in paint: 65.18.2 backing center right in pencil: (abstract drawings) backing upper left in ink: R25-4
Credit Line
Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Mediums
Mediums Description
gouache on paper
Classifications
Keywords
  • Animal
  • Animal — horse
  • Indian
  • Occupation — hunter
  • Study — mural study
  • Animal — buffalo
  • New Deal — Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture — Washington, D.C.
  • Equestrian
Object Number
1965.18.2

Exhibitions

Media - 1985.66.404 - SAAM-1985.66.404_1 - 9039
Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists
October 11, 2019November 22, 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.