Skip to main contentDescriptionBlack and white image of an elk standing forward, facing the viewer. The ground is dark with a patch of grass. A lightly sketched elk is behind.
American Elk
Artist/Maker
William Jacob Hays Sr.
United States, 1830 - 1875
Date1868
Mediumwash on paper
Dimensionsimage: 8 × 8 1/2 in. (20.3 × 21.6 cm)
frame: 16 1/2 × 15 5/8 in. (41.9 × 39.7 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1998.011
ClassificationsPainting
On View
Not on viewWilliam Jacob Hays Sr.