Buffalo Hunt

  • In 1850 Miller painted a large oil version of Indians Tantalizing a Wounded Buffalo for B&O Railroad president and later Maryland governor Thomas Swann, who collected several of Miler’s paintings including Indian Village (CR #171A) and Buffalo Hunt (CR #367B).

    Ron Tyler      

    Artist
    Alfred Jacob Miller
    Date
    ca. 1850
    Catalogue Number
    360A
    Medium
    Oil on Canvas
    Dimensions
    30 x 50 (76.2 x 120.7 cm)
    Accession Number
    Subjects
    Buffalo, Buffalo Hunts, Indians

    The artist; [?]; Governor Thomas Swann of Maryland; by descent to Mrs. Charles Gillette, Baltimore, MD; [Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY]; present owner