Witness of a Past - Bison by wildlife portrait artist Carl Brenders

Witness of a Past - Bison by Carl Brenders

 

"This painting is related to my very first trip to Yellowstone. It is difficult to describe my emotions when I saw my first buffalo herd. I felt like I had gone back in history. All the stories of the wild west in the 19th century were represented here in this impressive herd of buffalo, also known as bison.

 

"I think that there is no other animal so closely tied to the story of a country as the bison. It witnessed the decline of the red people whose wonderful culture was so closely tied to the nature they lived in." - Carl Brenders.

 

Print released in 1988.