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Canadian,
b. 1948
The Last of the Buffalo
1990
Oil on canvas
54 x 72 x 1.5 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2003.3
In 1888, toward the end of his career, Albert Bierstadt painted one of his best-known canvases, The Last of the Buffalo, a typically sentimental potboiler with a complex web of subtexts. Bierstadt—America’s first art star—had made his name and fortune with epically scaled romantic landscapes that were inseparable from the western expansionism promoted by the concept of Manifest Destiny. But by the late 1880s his work was so out of fashion that this final masterpiece was unanimously rejected for inclusion in the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.
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