Buffalo Hunt
Artist
John Dare Howland
(American, 1843 - 1914)
Dateca. 1868
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 18 x 24 inches (45.72 x 60.96 cm)
Framed: 26 13/16 x 32 11/16 inches (68.1 x 83.03 cm)
Framed: 26 13/16 x 32 11/16 inches (68.1 x 83.03 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number50-48
SignedSigned lower right: J. D. Howland
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L13
Collections
DescriptionMidwestern plain with Indians lancing buffalo. In the foreground an Indian on white horse approaching buffalo from animal's left, about to thrust spear.Published References“Masterpiece of the Month,” Gallery News (William Rockhill
Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts)
17 (January 1951), unpaginated; “Painting of the ‘Buffalo Hunt’
at Nelson Gallery,” 9 January 1951, clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA
Archives; Landon Laird, “Town,” 26 January 1951, clipping, Scrap
book, NAMA Archives; Kate Howland Charles, “Jack Howland,
Pioneer Painter of the Old West,” Colorado Magazine 29 (July
1952), 170–71; Life on the Prairie: The Artist’s Record, exh. cat.
(Omaha, Neb.: Joslyn Art Museum, 1954), 8; Fine Arts Festival,
exh. cat. (Manhattan: Kansas State College, 1955), unpaginated;
The Last Frontier, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rock-
hill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
1957), 25 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains); E. D. Stalnaker, “John
Howland, Peacemaker and Painter,” Kansas City Times, 9 Novem
ber 1957, 40 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains); NAMA 1959, 256;
Nolie Mumey, The Art and Activities of John Dare (Jack) How-
land: Painter, Soldier, Indian Trader, and Pioneer (Boulder, Colo.:
Johnson Publishing Co., 1973), 152–53 (as Hunting Buffalo on the
Plains); NAMA 1973, 252; Richard Leet, “Artists Formed Early
Personalities,” Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa), 19 August 1975,
7 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains); Ross E. Taggart, “American
Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mis
souri,” Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1031, 1033–34 (as Hunting
Buffalo on the Plains); Genre, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 17 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains);
NAMA 1991, 111–13 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains).
Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts)
17 (January 1951), unpaginated; “Painting of the ‘Buffalo Hunt’
at Nelson Gallery,” 9 January 1951, clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA
Archives; Landon Laird, “Town,” 26 January 1951, clipping, Scrap
book, NAMA Archives; Kate Howland Charles, “Jack Howland,
Pioneer Painter of the Old West,” Colorado Magazine 29 (July
1952), 170–71; Life on the Prairie: The Artist’s Record, exh. cat.
(Omaha, Neb.: Joslyn Art Museum, 1954), 8; Fine Arts Festival,
exh. cat. (Manhattan: Kansas State College, 1955), unpaginated;
The Last Frontier, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rock-
hill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,
1957), 25 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains); E. D. Stalnaker, “John
Howland, Peacemaker and Painter,” Kansas City Times, 9 Novem
ber 1957, 40 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains); NAMA 1959, 256;
Nolie Mumey, The Art and Activities of John Dare (Jack) How-
land: Painter, Soldier, Indian Trader, and Pioneer (Boulder, Colo.:
Johnson Publishing Co., 1973), 152–53 (as Hunting Buffalo on the
Plains); NAMA 1973, 252; Richard Leet, “Artists Formed Early
Personalities,” Globe-Gazette (Mason City, Iowa), 19 August 1975,
7 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains); Ross E. Taggart, “American
Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mis
souri,” Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1031, 1033–34 (as Hunting
Buffalo on the Plains); Genre, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 17 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains);
NAMA 1991, 111–13 (as Hunting Buffalo on the Plains).
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