Buffalo Hunter

Media - 1979.144.84 - SAAM-1979.144.84_2-000001 - 117228
Copied Julian Martinez, Buffalo Hunter, ca. 1920-1925, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paperboard, sheet: 11 1⁄8 x 14 1⁄4 in. (28.4 x 36.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corbin-Henderson Collection, Gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1979.144.84
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Artwork Details

Title
Buffalo Hunter
Artist
Date
ca. 1920-1925
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 11 1⁄8 x 14 1⁄4 in. (28.4 x 36.2 cm)
Markings
lower right in watercolor: Julian Martinez back upper left in pen and ink: Henderson Collection #16 back upper right in pencil: 16
Credit Line
Corbin-Henderson Collection, Gift of Alice H. Rossin
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor, ink, and pencil on paperboard
Classifications
Keywords
  • Figure
  • Indian
  • Occupation — hunter
  • Animal — buffalo
  • Object — weapon — spear
  • Equestrian
Object Number
1979.144.84
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1979.144.84

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.