<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=1985.81&output=rss2 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:48:42 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Buffalo on the Platte River]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2974

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Creator

Worthington Whittredge

Title

Buffalo on the Platte River

Date Created

1866

Spatial Coverage

49.2 cm x 71.8 cm (19 3/8 in. x 28 1/4 in.)

Identifier

1985.81

Medium

Oil on board

Description

Worthington Whittredge created this work after a survey expedition to the West. The plains landscape deeply affected the artist: “Whoever crossed the plains at that period…could hardly fail to be impressed with its vastness and silence.” This intimate painting depicts a herd of buffalo along the banks of Nebraska’s Platte River. Enabling a heightened sense of the vastness he had described, the artist kept the buffalo at a distance, a small, quiet presence. And yet, the ominous clouds could be taken as tacit symbols of the encroaching migration of white settlers to the region—a development that was accelerated by the First Transcontinental Railroad built along the Platte River. Just a decade after this work was painted, those traveling west by train would no longer witness Whittredge’s vision, as westward expansion and overhunting caused the near eradication of the American bison.

Rights Holder

Gift of C.R. Smith, 1985

Date

near Springfield, Ohio, 1820 - 1910, Summit, New Jersey

Type

painting

Has Version

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14820
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