The first European artist-naturalists to tour North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were awed not only by the continent\'s varying landforms but also by the animals they encountered: vast herds of buffalo, majestic horned stags, a bewildering variety of birds.
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The earliest sketches depicting these fauna began the remarkable tradition of Wildlife in American art, a tradition that evolved along with the United States as a nation and still thrives today.
The first European artist-naturalists to tour North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were awed not only by the continent\'s varying landforms but also by the animals they encountered: vast herds of buffalo, majestic horned stags, a bewildering variety of birds