Albert Bierstadt · 1888
The Last of the Buffalo
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A Plains warrior on a rearing white horse drives his lance into a charging bison, bones and skulls scattered across the grass and snow peaks beyond — Bierstadt's last large canvas and elegy for the vanishing herds. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 20.4 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
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Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
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Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Last of the Buffalo
The Last of the Buffalo was painted in 1888 and is Albert Bierstadt's last large canvas. It shows a buffalo hunt by Native Americans on horseback in front of a vast plain and distant snow-covered peaks. Wikipedia reads it as a melancholy reflection on westward expansion, when hunting had driven the herds nearly to extinction. The picture combines elements Bierstadt had sketched on his western expeditions. In 1998 the US Postal Service put it on one of the stamps in its Four Centuries of American Art set.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.
All Albert Bierstadt prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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