© by Jenness Cortez –
Acrylic on mahogany panel, 34 by 36 inches
Homage to:
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
The Last of the Buffalo (Amended by Jenness Cortez, 2015)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
The Scout – Friends or Foes? Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Charles M. Russell (1864-1926)
Nature’s Cattle bronze sculpture, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Piegans (detail), Petrie Collection, Denver Museum, Denver, CO
James Earle Fraser (1876-1953)
End of the Trail bronze sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
John Mix Stanley (1814-1872)
The Buffalo Hunt (detail), Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Fort Laramie The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
George Catlin (1796-1872)
Buffalo Bull (detail), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Cheyenne buffalo bladder Medicine Bag, 19th century, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
Books:
Giants in the Earth
Albert Bierstadt
The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920
Theodore Roosevelt: Hunter-Conservationist
Heads, Hides & Horns
The Winning of the West
John Mix Stanley Rediscovered
The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club: American Big-Game Hunting
Fort Laramie and the Sioux 1849-1890
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Virginian
Good Medicine
Lakota • Belief and Ritual
A Shared Destiny: The Buffalo and the Indians
The Buffalo Book
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Winnetou
Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
Charles M. Russell
The U. S. Army in the West, 1783-1900
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
George Catlin
The Legend of White Buffalo Woman
Across the Continent
Holy Bible