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On the Edge
On the Edge

On the Edge

Artist/Maker Ken Carlson United States, born 1937
Date1982
MediumOil on Board
Dimensionsimage: 24 × 36 in. (61 × 91.4 cm) frame: 34 × 45 3/4 in. (86.4 × 116.2 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.031
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThree dall sheep standing on the edge of a rocky precipice. A bright light shines from above to illuminate the white coats of the sheep.
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c. 1870
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David Shepherd
1967
Rounding Up the Strays
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1982
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Big Horn Sheep
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c. 1995
Winter Whitetails
Ken Carlson
1986
Buffalo Skull
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Dall Sheep
Carl Rungius
c. 1940