age of fifteen and never returned home, the buffalo hunt was a central image that the artist explored throughout his career. While Buffalo herds were frequently decimated by Anglos hunting hides, for the Native American population with which Russell was closely linked, the buffalo hunt was a source of great pride. Russell depicted such hunts with reverence and admiration for the pre-reservation Indians he so respected. Henry François Farny’s The Toilers of the Plains (est. $250/350,000) and Oscar E. Berninghaus’s Cottonwood River Ranch (est. $250/350,000) will also be included from the same collection.
