Current Exhibition Now Open in the Anne and Charles Duncan Special Exhibition Gallery Whoop it Up! Celebrating 100 Years of the Cody Stampede tells the story of the Cody Stampede, a highly successful, multi-day rodeo event held every year since 1919, except during World War II. The special exhibition features vintage photographs, artwork, artifacts, film footage–and […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West presents a not-to-be-missed special exhibition that opened in June 2019. Whoop It Up! Celebrating 100 Years of the Cody Stampede tells the story of the Cody Stampede, a highly successful, multi-day rodeo event held every year since 1919, except during the years of World War II. The exhibition […]
The popular exhibition Yellowstone Discovered: William Henry Jackson’s Lost Prints Reveal the Park for America is once again on display at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. First installed on March 21, 2016, these rare images of Yellowstone depict a park that has changed little—or a great deal—depending on the viewer’s perspective. The Buffalo […]
Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West would not have been possible without the generous support of many donors. For this funding in support of the scholarly catalogue and major traveling exhibition organized in conjunction with Gilcrease Museum, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is profoundly grateful. Our donors are listed below in alphabetical […]
Albert Bierstadt’s paintings may have contributed to the profound changes occurring in the American West in the late 1800s. Across Bierstadt’s thirty-year career, his depictions of an idealized western landscape helped inspire new waves of pioneers to follow Manifest Destiny, the concept that westward expansion by Euro-Americans was divinely sanctioned and inevitable. But Bierstadt’s paintings […]
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 Building in New York. It is likely that Bierstadt encouraged his friends Whittredge and Beard to travel west following his own western adventures in 1859 […]