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Study for "The Last of the Buffalo"
Title:
Study for "The Last of the Buffalo"
Artist(s):
Albert Bierstadt
Date:
ca. 1888
Location:
de Young
Gallery 24
Century:
19th Century AD
Media:
Oil On Canvas
Dimensions:
24 3/4 x 35 7/8 in. (62.9 x 91.1 cm)
Department:
American Painting
Object Type:
Painting
Country:
United States
Continent:
North America
Provenance:

[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1970]

John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, New York, 1970—1979

FAMSF, 1979.7.11

Accession Number:
1979.7.11
Acquisition Date:
1979-04-05
Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd

Exhibition History:

San Francisco 1976, exh. no.44

Tokyo 1982, exh. no.33

FAMSF, Albert Bierstadt: An Observer of Air, Light and the Feeling
of a Place, 1985, no. exh.. no.

Included in the San Francisco venue of the Brooklyn Museum s Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise, 1991, not in publ.

Art of the Americas: Art and Ethnography-3/28/98-7/5/98-M. H. de Young Museum

M.H. deYoung Museum,A Feast for the Eye, 9/26/98-12/13/98