Buffalo+and+Wolves

Date: 1876  Artist: **Edward Kemeys** Born: Savannah, Georgia 1843 Died: Washington, District of Columbia 1907
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1984/1984.141.2_1a.jpg?itok=-ewOL8U1 width="384" height="307" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/buffalo-and-wolves-13541"]] || Title: **Buffalo and Wolves**

Medium: bronze Dimensions: 20 x 30 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (50.8 x 77.0 x 49.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of J. Willis Johnson

Accession: 1984.141.2 || Fascinated with animals since childhood, Edward Kemeys has been called “America's first animal sculptor.” Largely self-taught, he began to make wax models of wildlife in 1868. In the early 1870s he joined buffalo-hunting expeditions in the “rugged and untamed West.” “I think I learned more there during that six months than at any other time; and right here let me say, don't make too much of my hunting. I was a hunter for a purpose—to study men and animals.” //Buffalo and Wolves//, a moving image of a buffalo attacked by wolves, was shown to much acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1878 and praised for its precise anatomical detail and intense emotional appeal.
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