Credit: Wilhelm Kuhnert (Germany, 1865 – 1926), Fighting Bison in Bialowieza – detail, n.d. Oil on canvas. 44 × 77 1/2 inches. Collection of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands. Photograph by Rik Klein Gotink.

Art, the Conservation Movement, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s Crusade to Save the American Buffalo

Longtime conservationist Carl Green will host a conversation about how wildlife art of the Big Four, coupled with monumental landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, played an indispensable role in fueling President Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to go big on aspirations of the Conservation Movement, resulting in a system of permanently protected lands for wildlife that became an enduring American legacy.

This event is included with museum admission/FREE for members

Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art is curated by Adam Duncan Harris, Grainger/Kerr Director of the Carl Rungius Catalogue Raisonné, and organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art.