Steven Lang, b. 1960 OPAM | Signed: © Lang OPAM, l/r | Media: Oil on canvas | Dimensions: 24 by 36 inches

"During the first half of the 19th century there were countless millions of buffalo roaming the western frontier. The buffalo were a brown, fur covered mass of horns, hooves and meat. They were the food store of the Plains People. These great herds migrated north and south across the Great Plains and created trails on which they would move in a single and random formation. The Indians would often stack buffalo skulls along these trails to lure the buffalo and to serve as a territorial and hunting boundary marker. As the buffalo began to diminish in the latter half of the 1800’s, these cairns became a matter of dispute and hostilities among competing tribes as they sought to acquire food for their people." © Steven Lang OPAM

Winner of the Phippen Family Award, The Phippen Foundation Award and The Phippen Museum Purchase Award at the 40th Annual Western Art show, 2014.