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Overhunting The American Bison Art Print
by David Ralph
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Overhunting The American Bison art print by David Ralph. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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In the abstract watercolor painting, Overhunting: The American Bison by artist David Ralph, the devastating plight of the American Bison comes to... more
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In the abstract watercolor painting, "Overhunting: The American Bison" by artist David Ralph, the devastating plight of the American Bison comes to full view. The American Bison, a large herbivore which roamed the vast grasslands of North American for centuries in huge herds in the tens of millions, nearly went extinct by 1880 by commercial and wasteful overhunting. Thousands of American settlers moving westward on the newly-introduced railroad trains killed these bovines for sport, adventure, and as a tactic to eliminate the Native American tribes in their way. This expansion brought these settlers into direct conflict with the various Native American tribes like the Sioux and Cheyenne that lived in the middle of the continent. Many of these tribes, before the introduction of the gun by the European American settlers, lived in harmony and balance with these animals and their culture was intertwined with the existence of these American buffalo. The slaughter of these immense mammals in...
About David Ralph
David Ralph is a contemporary artist and illustrator currently living in Maryland. David's style of painting and illustration can best be described as geometric abstraction with influences ranging from the cubist paintings of Pablo Picasso to the primitive, cutout shapes of Henri Matisse. Other notable influences for David were Paul Cezanne's fragmented landscapes and the geometrically-divided, flat-color canvases of Piet Mondrian. To David, the simple elegance of the curve, the line, and the circle create the ideal two-dimensional plain of visual interest and appeal. And, to add color intensity, value contrast and balance to this space - along with repetition, texture and pattern - is to create a perfect harmony. It is to this goal that...
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