Landscape with Herd of Buffalo on the Upper Missouri

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Landscape with Herd of Buffalo on the Upper Missouri

Date

July 14, 1834

Dimensions

9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (24.8 × 31.4 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.213

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Above Fort Union, game became plentiful and hunters from the boat were successful in supplying meat for passengers and crew. On July 10, four days out from Fort Union, buffalo appeared near the river and several were taken. On July 14 near the junction of Porcupine Creek below the mouth of the Milk River, more buffalo approached the banks and a white wolf was reported in the vicinity of the herd. Bodmer subsequently produced a landscape with buffalo grazing on the Missouri bottoms that includes the figure of a white wolf skulking in the lower left foreground. This was reproduced as Tableau 40 in the atlas of aquatints.

References in Journal

July 14, 1834

Labels:

genre, riverscape , Missouri River

Approximate Depicted Location:

Upper Missouri River