Cattle Drinking

Oil painting on canvas: Cattle Drinking. The landscape has three cattle at a stream in foreground. In the far distance more cattle are in the open prairie by three trees.

Lou Burk spent his life drawing and painting livestock and his patrons included some of the richest men of the day, such as George Vanderbilt and James J. Hill. He first worked as a carpenter but it was said that he “drifted into portraiture” sometime in his early twenties.