Skip to main contentDescriptionTwo white mountain goats walk along a thin edge of a rocky mountain. The severe slope of the mountain follows the drop of a waterfall that the goats are walking back towards.
Sheer Drop
Artist/Maker
Robert Bateman
Canada, born 1930
Date1980
MediumOil on Board
Dimensionsimage: 48 × 36 × 1/4 in. (121.9 × 91.4 × 0.6 cm)
frame: 56 1/2 × 44 1/2 × 2 in. (143.5 × 113 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1991.032
ClassificationsPainting
Subject
Signedsigned lower right
InscribedOn reverse: "Mountain Goat/ 48 x 36 / 1980 / Reproduction rights retained by the artist/ R bateman
On View
Not on viewFrancis Lee Jaques
John Clymer
Melvin Johansen