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Charles Ferdinand Wimar

Buffaloes Crossing the Yellowstone

1859

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  • Artist Charles Ferdinand Wimar (American, b. Germany, 1828–1862)
  • Title Buffaloes Crossing the Yellowstone
  • Date 1859
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 24 1/8 x 48 1/4 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Dr. William Van Zandt, 1886
  • Object number WU 3454
  • Currently on View Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 1

Reframing the 19th Century
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 06/20/2024

I Like America
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany), 09/27/2006 - 01/07/2007

Currents of Change: Art and Life Along the Mississippi River, 1850–1861
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 06/27/2004 - 11/15/2004

St. Louis and the Art of the Frontier
Saint Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri—St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri), 11/11/2000 - 01/31/2001

Green Acres: Neocolonialism in the U.S.
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/11/1992 - 11/01/1992

Carl Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/26/1991 - 03/24/1991
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, Texas), 05/04/1991 - 08/04/1991

Montana Landscape—One Hundred Years
Yellowstone Art Center (Billings, Montana), 05/09/1982 - 08/01/1982

The Centennial Exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1981 - 10/11/1981

Six Guns and Tomahawks
Southern Ohio Museum (Portsmouth, Ohio), 12/07/1980 - 12/21/1981

They Saw the West
Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida), 09/30/1968 - 11/10/1968

Salute to St. Louis
Stix, Baer & Fuller Department Store, 10/04/1965 - 10/16/1965

Art of the American Frontier
IBM Gallery (New York, New York), 03/01/1964 - 03/31/1964

Opening Exhibition of Mark C. Steinberg Memorial Hall
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/29/1960

Westward the Way
Saint Louis Art Museum, 10/22/1954 - 12/06/1954
Walker Art Center, 01/14/1955 - 02/28/1955

Carl Wimar: Painter of the Indian Frontier
Saint Louis Art Museum, 10/18/1946 - 12/15/1946

St. Louis Exposition and Fair
Art Gallery of the St. Louis Exposition and Fair Association (St. Louis, Missouri)

First Annual Exhibition
Western Academy of Art (St. Louis, Missouri)

Fourth Annual St. Louis Fair
St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association (St. Louis, Missouri), 09/26/1859 - 10/01/1859

18th Annual St. Louis Fair and Exposition
Venue Unknown (St. Louis, Missouri)

1886
Dr. William Van Zandt

Inscription Recto, lower right, in black paint: Charles Wimar 1859

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