The Call

Artist/Maker William Gollings United States, 1878 - 1932

Date1910

MediumOil on Canvas

Dimensionsimage: 14 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (36.8 × 26.7 cm) frame: 20 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (51.4 × 41.3 cm)

Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Object numberJL1995.170

ClassificationsPainting

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Signedsigned lower left

InscribedOn back: "Now a wolf won't make a very good pet. / But John A. Smith thought he'd 'copper this bet.' / So he bought these, made of paint from the Ponytrack man / And he can walk up and pet 'em and they don't give a damn" -Gollings. Jan 27 1910

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DescriptionTwo coyote's (wolves?) in a landscape at nighttime. One coyote walks to the right, while the other is perched up on a rock howling up at the full moon that is in the blue sky behind it. Verso inscription: "Now a Wolf don't make a very good pet. But John A Smith thought he'd 'copper this bet.' So he bought these, made of paint from the Ponytrack man And he can walk up and pet 'em and they don't give a dam-" Signed Gollings, Jan-27-1910.