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: 20 x 26 1⁄8 in. (50.8 x 66.2 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.)
Artist
Date
1939
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 20 x 26 1⁄8 in. (50.8 x 66.2 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
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/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, 2019–November 22, 2020
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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.