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

Woodrow Crumbo, Buffalo Hunt (color study for mural, East Wall, Recreation Room, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.), 1939, gouache on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.2
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)
Credit Line
Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Mediums
Mediums Description
gouache on paper
Classifications
Subjects
  • New Deal — Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture — Washington, D.C.
  • Equestrian
  • Indian
  • Occupation — hunter
  • Study — mural study
  • Animal — horse
  • Animal — buffalo
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–March 13, 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.