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Stampede

Stampede

Another painting of surprisingly violent subject matter, although heroic in a sense. This painting shows a buffalo herd bearing down on a young woman who is holding her hand up in a futile effort to shield herself from the attack. A leather-clad hero steps in and is about to fire his rifle into the buffalo's skull before the woman becomes trampled. Another man with a rifle prepares to fend off the rest of the approaching herd in the background.

This was also painted by W. Courtney.
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maybe this pics are part of a therapy program where patients are asked with which of the persons on the painting they can identify most. donno. this is my idea of it. if they'd asked me i would identify with the buffalo. hehe. >:-D
Chipy
Fri 12-16-2005
Perhaps the artist was an inmate. My grandmother taught art at the NJ Womens Prison, and some of her most violent offenders painted some amazing art. Quite a bit of it was displayed in the facility.
Emily
Sat 12-17-2005
I hope the buffalos trample all three of them.
Pretentious gun-wielding brutes.
Judderman
Sun 12-18-2005
well, while we are on the subject here, I have to disagreee with judderman, I hope the valiant cowboy/cowman fires a projectile into that buffalo's brain, thus rendering it dead and no longer a threat to the well being of the higher species, the humans.
Neo
Mon 12-19-2005
Everybody think.... "happy thoughts"
radar
Tue 12-20-2005
Interesting art therapy,,,,
awyper
Tue 12-20-2005
ever seen a buffalo up close?
they are huge, the rifle shot would not keep it from crushing them, in it's last moments. We have alot of people killed in custer state park. Some people try to pet the things like they are tame and in a zoo or something.
missouriman
Wed 12-21-2005
At Ted's Montana grill, here in Atlanta, you can eat bison.
(Ted Turner's restaurants, you know, the TBS, CNN, Headline news guy)
Grifspop
Wed 12-21-2005
And right here we will show a buffalo being shot.....normally we will paint happy little trees PUSH
Joe
Fri 03-03-2006
Isn't that a depiction of *Buffalo Bill Cody*?
Fred...With an F
Tue 04-18-2006
Go buffaloes! kill teh peoples!!!! hee hee hee me likeyes....
your photography is amazing, motts!
Shyria
Tue 04-18-2006
This is another strange choice for a mental hospital.
Gezal
Fri 06-02-2006
How come it can't be the other way around: the man cowering on the ground and the woman coming to the rescue just in time?
Amy
Thu 08-24-2006
In the effort of honesty, what the hell were they thinking?
C
Wed 09-13-2006
where do you guys get these stupid pictures
mikaela
Tue 09-26-2006
The near demise of the buffalo.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
Joseph
Mon 04-16-2007
Wow, from an entity that we can't control to one
that bears down and almost envelopes you in its' violence. Kill or be killed.
As you say, very strange artwork being displayed.
Lots of subconscious messages going on.
Kirsty
Sun 01-25-2009
Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier...
ilovehorseyrides
Mon 08-10-2009
another unappropriate pic for mental wards, looks as if the staff had to be mental too!
PutN2Cents
Mon 11-16-2009
Again, another sick image designed by an equally sick artist to strike terror and indecision into the minds of the already unbalanced inmates. Thorazine anyone?
Dr.Remulak
Tue 03-02-2010
sublliminal messaging!
Amy
Thu 07-15-2010
wow- very disturbing. cruel.
these paintings were directly across from the cells- their only windows to the world, so to speak.

No happy little trees here my friends.
blueridge kitty
Mon 01-24-2011

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