Skip to main contentDescriptionGrizzly bear eating a deer. Blood spills from the neck of the deer as numerous wolves look on from various places in the distance. Fallen trees, bushes, branches and grass all cover the ground and the setting sun can be seen in the distance. The sky appears purple and pink as the sun lowers in the sky behind the distant mountains.
To the Victor Belongs the Spoils
Artist/Maker
Charles M. Russell
United States, 1864 - 1926
Date1901
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 31 1/2 × 44 1/2 in. (80 × 113 cm)
frame: 39 1/4 × 52 1/4 in. (99.7 × 132.7 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.126
ClassificationsPainting
SignedSigned
Inscribedsignature CM Russell 1901 (with drawing of steer between name and date) Lower proper left corner
On View
On viewRobert F. Kuhn
William de la Montagne Cary
Philip R. Goodwin
Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell