A rider closes on a bull across a plain scattered with bones

A mounted hunter on a white horse comes level with a charging bull at the centre, his lance already lowered. The plain runs back for miles behind them, a shallow river winding through it, with herds scattered across the middle distance and more riders at the right. Snow peaks stand along the far horizon. In the foreground the ground is strewn with skulls and bleached bones, and several bison stand or lie among them.

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was the grandest landscape painter of the American West. Born in Solingen and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he trained at the Düsseldorf academy before joining Frederick W. Lander's overland survey to the Rocky Mountains in 1859 — the first of the western journeys that gave him his subject. From the sketches he brought back he built enormous exhibition canvases such as The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) and Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868), in which shafts of light break over peaks and mirrored lakes on a scale that drew paying crowds. His paintings are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

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