Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Buffalo Hunt
Buffalo hunts, both imagined and observed, were a popular subject for Native and European artists for more than a century beginning in the early 1800s. Primarily associated with Plains Indian cultures, Arizona artist Beatien Yazz did not witness any buffalo hunts in person, but rather imagined this dynamic scene of three hunters on horseback riding downhill, in a landscape rendered with muted yellow lines and small tufts of pastel green grass.
ArtistBeatien Yazz, Navajo, 1928–2012
Date1953
MediumGouache on paper
Dimensions33 3/8 x 39 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.
Signedl.r.: TB Yazz 10
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.59
ClassificationWatercolor
ProvenanceKuykendall Collection, Tucson, AZ until 1953; purchased by Private Collection, 1953; by descent in the family to Estate of Dorothy A. Hall [1922-2015], Santa Fe, NM; (Adobe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM); Bruce Hartman, Prairie Village, KS; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2020
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 180× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.