Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

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Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

George Catlin

Buffalo Chase, A Surround by the Hidatsa

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Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

George Catlin

1796 - 1872

Buffalo Chase, A Surround by the Hidatsa


oil on canvas laid down on Masonite

23 by 27 ½ in.

58.4 by 69.9 cm.

Executed in 1830-32.

Benjamin O’Fallon, Missouri

Emily O’Fallon, Missouri, daughter of the above (acquired by descent from the above in 1842)

The Field Museum, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1894)

Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 2011, lot 76 (consigned by the above)

Carl W. Knobloch, Jr., Wilson, Wyoming (acquired from the above)

Christie's, New York, 17 May 2022, lot 25

Acquired from the above by the present owner

George Quimby, Indians of the Western Frontier: Paintings of George Catlin, Chicago 1954, pp. 54-55, illustrated

William H. Truettner, The Natural Man Observed: A Study of Catlin’s Indian Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1979, pp. 258-259, illustrated