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BIERSTADT, Albert: Sketch for The Last of the Buffalo

🖼 Sketch for The Last of the Buffalo, 1888
Cody, United States

Golden light bathes a vast prairie where buffalo herds scatter across rolling terrain, rendered with dramatic atmospheric perspective and loose, gestural brushwork. Bierstadt's sketch captures the vanishing American frontier and extinction of the buffalo, symbolizing the environmental and cultural loss of westward expansion.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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