Burial on the Plains

[1] Lorenz was a horse specialist and he began his career working on large canvas panoramas.

Joan Carpenter Troccoli who wrote the book Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection describes the painting by saying, it is easy to imaging Burial on the Plains being a segment of a panorama "open-ended and abruptly cut off".

In 1915 the Boston Evening Transcript reported that it received great praise in Munich.

It was scheduled to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition but it was "lost in transmission" and not recovered in time.

[3] The painting is now housed at the American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection.