Representational Oil Paintings &  Fine   Art Prints in the Classical Tradition
 

Buffalo, Yelowstone National Park, Kay Witherspoon, Wildlife Art

Bison herds numbering in the thunderous thousands once roamed the American great plains.  Now, thanks to conservation efforts , this once endangered species is now roaming our National Parks and select great plains ranches again.  This particularly magnificent old bull was sited in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.  Although a highly social species, old buffalo are known to lead a more solitary existence, as this one seemed to be doing.  Still dusty from a roll in a nearby buffalo wallow, his shaggy coat bore the scars of  a probable attack by predators on his flanks.