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BIERSTADT, Albert: The Buffalo Trail

🖼 The Buffalo Trail, 1867
Boston, United States

Golden light bathes a vast prairie as Native Americans on horseback drive buffalo across undulating terrain, rendered in luminous detail with sweeping brushwork. Bierstadt's romanticized vision captured the American West as a sublime wilderness, though it erased the ecological devastation and indigenous dispossession already underway.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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