Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Buffalo Hunt with Lances

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Buffalo Hunt with Lances
Image View: 
Detail, right side, Native American wheels his horse into position to strike the buffalo
Creator: 
Alfred Jacob Miller (American painter, 1810-1874)
Location: 
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.206
Location Note: 
5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
GPS: 
+44.565-69.660833
Date: 
1858 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
American
Style Period: 
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
54.61 cm (height) x 86.36 cm (length)
Subjects: 
animal; landscape; Native North Americans; horses; buffalo; bison; hunting
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-MILLERA-CA-BH-A03
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.