Chippewas Hunting Caribou
Cornelius Krieghoff Β· 1861
Why it's great
Anishinaabe (Chippewa) hunters track caribou through the woods and along a stream. Cornelius Krieghoff painted this to show life he'd seen in the northern wilderness. The trees and small figures show how large the land was. It's an important image of Indigenous hunting.
Where to see it
π Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsMontreal, Canada
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Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam and moved to North America as a young man. He lived in Montreal and Quebec, where he painted lively scenes of French-Canadian farm life and winter. His humorous pictures made him one of Canada's most popular painters. He died in Chicago in 1872.
