Albert Bierstadt studied art in Germany alongside noted American landscape and animal painters Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard. The three later became neighbors in the famous Tenth Street Studio […]

Albert Bierstadt studied art in Germany alongside noted American landscape and animal painters Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard. The three later became neighbors in the famous Tenth Street Studio […]
William Jacob Hays, a friend of Bierstadt’s, was awestruck by the bison herds along the Missouri, and wrote, “On my way down the river I saw thousands of buffalo; they […]
When George Catlin traveled up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, he admired the Native American peoples of the Great Plains and observed the bison herds as one of their […]
Bierstadt’s painting The Last of the Buffalo served as a final, desperate call to save a species from near-certain annihilation. But he was not the first—nor the last—to use an […]
Bierstadt used art as a platform to denounce the decimation of America’s most iconic and largest mammal. Some of his paintings present the bison as flourishing and others lament the […]
In the fall of 1859, an art journal, The Crayon, reported: “Bierstadt has returned lately from the Rocky Mountains…and has brought with him much material in sketches, photographs, and stereoscopic […]