Vintage print of the Charlie Russell oil “Buffalo Hunt”. Although inspired by his firsthand experiences, Russell's representations of the buffalo hunt were not intended to depict contemporary life on the frontier. Instead, the subject was emblematic of the Old West—a purer, bygone era not yet spoiled by western expansion. The buffalo hunt evokes a lost world, simpler and full of adventure, as Russell aimed to memorialize a way of living that had been destroyed. The artist returned to this theme throughout his career out of respect for the Plains Indian culture and their way of life that was sustained by the hunt before white pioneers settled in the West. The buffalo hunt reflects Russell's yearning for the West that was lost, for the West that had forever passed. Measures approx. 19” x 12”.