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Artist/Maker Robert Bateman Canada, born 1930
Date1997
MediumAcrylic on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 71 × 98 × 3 1/2 in. (180.3 × 248.9 × 8.9 cm) frame: 75 1/4 × 101 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (191.1 × 257.2 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Birgit and Robert Bateman, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1997.063
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned lower right
On View
On view
DescriptionLife size bison rushing at the viewer from a cloud of prairie dust.
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