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A Tense Moment Before the Storm
A Tense Moment Before the Storm
© Francois Koch Artist retains copyright. In essence: Allows the NMWA to use images of artwork for Museum specific things, including publications, on the website, in magazine and newspaper articles, invitations, flyers, etc. Allows the NMWA to use images of the artwork(s) to create items that can be sold in the Museum Shop and through the website. This could include, but is not limited to, postcards and posters. Allows any institutions which may borrow work(s) on loan from the NMWA to utilize images for exhibition related advertisements and catalogs Allows the NMWA to use images of any future work(s) that it collects, in which the copyright is held by the artist, for Museum specific things (see #1).

A Tense Moment Before the Storm

Artist/Maker (South Africa, born 1944)
Date1998
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 32 × 48 in. (81.3 × 121.9 cm) frame: 56 1/4 in. (142.9 cm) frame: 40 1/2 in. (102.9 cm) frame: 40 1/2 × 56 in. (102.9 × 142.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Shiloh Oil Corporation, Charles A. Vose, Jr., Chairman of the Board, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Terms
    Object numberW2002.002
    DescriptionThree Lionesses in the Kalahari Desert. The dry dessert is spotted with sagebrush. Dark storm clouds roll towards the viewer.
    Status
    Not on view