Signed, lower right: A. Bierstadt

Vose Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). Kennedy Galleries (New York, New York, USA). 1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Albert Bierstadt, The Wolf River, Kansas, ca. 1859, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 61.28.