Parent And Child - American Bison

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Parent And Child - American Bison

Artist

Lianne Schneider

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Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

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Digital impressionist hand-painting of two of the small herd of American bison restored to the Montana plains from pure stock from the Wind Cave National Park, SD herd.

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior

The American bison, commonly referred to as buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once literally covered the plains and grasslands of the continent. Massive herds were hunted to near extinction by both commercial hunting and slaughter during the 19th century and also by the spread of certain bovine diseases from domestic cattle. Buffalo is an inaccurate name for this massive animal which bears little resemblance to true buffalo - the Asian water buffalo and the African buffalo.

"North American bison were reduced to a few hundred by the mid-1880s. They were hunted for their skins, with the rest of the animal left behind to decay on the ground. After the animals rotted, their bones were collected and shipped back east in large quantities. The US Army sanctioned and actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds. The US federal government promoted bison hunting for various reasons, to allow ranchers to range their cattle without competition from other bovines, and to weaken the North American Indian population by removing their main food source and to pressure them onto the reservations. Without the bison, native people of the plains were forced either to leave the land or starve to death." (Wikipedia)

There has been resurgence in the numbers of bison in the United States thanks to preserves in a few northwestern national and state parks. The Antelope Island bison herd, an isolated bison herd on Utah's Antelope Island has also been used to improve the genetic diversity of American bison. The current American bison population has been growing rapidly, and is estimated at 350,000 - relatively few compared to an estimated 60 to 100 million in the mid-19th century. Most current herds however, are genetically polluted or partly crossbred with cattle. Today there are only four genetically unmixed, free roaming, public bison herds and only one that is also free of brucellosis: it roams Wind Cave National Park. A founder population of 16 animals from the Wind Cave bison herd was re-established in Montana in 2005 by the American Prairie Foundation. The herd now numbers near 100 and roams a 14,000-acre grassland expanse on American Prairie Reserve.

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I am a western New York based artist with a passion for the sea and a deep love for the natural world around me. Having somewhat restricted mobility, my paintings are sometimes based on images in the public domain or on elements from classic art work. Thank you for your interest in my artwork. If you would like to see more, my full portfolio can be found at http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com If you enjoy my art works, please feel free to share this link with friends or share on your social networks by pushing the Pinterest, FB, Google+, Twitter or SU Buttons! Thank you!

You can purchase quality traditional style fine art prints of digital paintings, giclee canvas prints, acrylic and metallic prints by Lianne Schneider. Beautiful and stylish decor for any wall in your home, office or lobby. Detailed landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, flowers and more...all with the look and feel of classic oil paintings. The FAA-Watermark will NOT appear on any final product!

This is a hand-painted digital oil derivative work based primarily on a work in the public domain. While my adaptations and interpretations are copyright protected, the underlying artwork remains in the public domain available to other artists to reproduce or interpret.

Please contact the artist, Lianne Schneider, directly if you purchase this image as a giclee print on canvas, framed or unframed. A signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity is available for each canvas indicating title of the work, my name, date of creation, a thumbnail of the painting, the origin of original work if the painting is a derivative, the number of your print in the limited printing and a guarantee that the work will no longer be available to the public in a canvas format once 25 canvas prints are sold.

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014
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All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or the digital painting resulting from my own style and interpretation. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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