Description:

Cassilly Adams
American, 1843-1921

Oil on canvas, mounted on card backing
Two Native Americans on horseback, with spear and bow, hunting buffalo in a Great Plains landscape. Signed lower right, framed.
With partial label to back for framer G.M. Ashley & Co.

Cassilly Adams is best known for his epic painting 'Custer's Last Fight' (completed 1885), which was purchased by Adolphus Busch and famously used for an Anheuser-Busch advertisement in the 1890s.

    Dimensions:
  • Canvas: 6 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (16.5 x 26.7 cm.), Frame: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
  • Artist Name:
  • Cassilly Adams
  • Medium:
  • Oil on canvas, mounted on card backing
  • Condition:
  • Canvas is mounted, but not fully laid, on a card backing. Canvas has wear to the edges, with some fraying, and a split in the lower right corner. Canvas has a small loss in the upper right corner, along with a short vertical scratch in the paint.

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