INDIANS HUNTING BUFFALO (WILD MEN'S MEAT; BUFFALO HUNT) BY CHARLES M. RUSSELL
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Charles M. Russell Indians Hunting Buffalo (Wild Men's Meat; Buffalo Hunt) 1894 Oil on canvas 24 1/8 inches x 36 1/8 inches |
| Indians Hunting Buffalo is more a flight of fancy that the kind of realistic observation expected of Charles Russell. Russell may have been instructed by the man who commissioned the painting, Robert Vaughn, to model it after Titian Ramsay Peale's 1832 lithograph, American Buffaloe. While the hunter is carefully modeled and convincing, both his position during the hunt and the appearance of his almost conventionalized white steed are more the product of an Eastern studio than of Russell's knowing mind. |