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Wyoming Herd Bull
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Wyoming Herd Bull

Date1906
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 × 46 1/4 in. (76.2 × 117.5 cm) frame: 40 3/8 × 56 3/8 in. (102.6 × 143.2 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberJL2006.039
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
SignedSigned
InscribedLRC dated 1906
ProvenanceThe Artist; to John MacFarlane Phillips, 1906; to Private Collection (daughter of the above), 1954, by descent; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York); Private Collection, New Jersey, 1998; (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno), July 22, 2006; to Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, 2006; to JKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2006 (loan)
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Description"Defiance. Bugling elk standing in foreground silhouetted against light hazy landscape. a bunch of cows feeding, down into the picture behind him. Morninglight [sic] from the left. Two moss covered rocks in front of bull," from 1906 copyright registration, long form (Class I: Works of Art). Nine elk total, one bull, eight cows.