The Last of the Buffalo, 1889, is Albert Bierstadt's (1830-1902) poignant late testament to the vanishing of the western frontier and its populations of native peoples and animal life. Bierstadt was one of the leading interpreters of the West as a symbol of America’s destiny. THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART. Washington, D.C.

On stamps at 32 cents apiece of the sheet:
1) John Foster (1648-1681) - Portrait of Richard Mather; 2) The Freake Limner (17 C.) - Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary; 3) Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) - Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog; 4) Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) - Rubens Peale with a Geranium; 5) John James Audubon (1785-1851) - Long-billed Curlew, Numenius Longrostris;
6) George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) - Boatmen on the Missouri; 7) Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) - Kindred Sprits; 8) Joshua Johnson (1765-1830) - The Westwood Children; 9) William Harnett (1848-1892) - Music and Literature; 10) Winslow Homer (1836-1910) - The Fog Warning;
11) George Catlin (1796-1872) - The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas; 12) Thomas Moran (1837-1926) - Cliffs of Green River; 13) Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) - The Last of the Buffalo; 14) Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) - Niagara; 15) Mary Cassatt (1845-1926) - Breakfast in Bed;
16) Edward Hopper (1882-1967) - Night-hawks; 17) Grant Wood (1892-1942) - American Gothic; 18) Charles Sheeler (1883-1965) - Two Against the White; 19) Franz Kline (1910-1962) - Mahoning; 20) Mark Rothko (1903-1970) - No. 12.