Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Buffalo Hunt with Lances
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Buffalo Hunt with Lances
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Image View:
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Detail, left side, Native American spearing buffalo
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Creator:
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Alfred Jacob Miller (American painter, 1810-1874)
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Location:
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repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.206
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Location Note:
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5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
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GPS:
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+44.565-69.660833
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Date:
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1858 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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54.61 cm (height) x 86.36 cm (length)
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Subjects:
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animal; landscape; Native North Americans; horses; buffalo; bison; hunting
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Description:
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Miller’s many paintings of American Indians were based on sketches that he made during an 1837 trip to the Rocky Mountains with the Scottish hunter William Drummond Stewart. Buffalo Hunt with Lances is almost identical to an earlier picture that the artist painted for Stewart’s castle in the Scottish Highlands. Such scenes offered Miller’s patrons (who were mostly Baltimore businessmen) a fantasy of masculine adventure pursued outside the restrictive bounds of civilization. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu/museum/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MILLERA-CA-BH-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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