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The Combat
The Combat

The Combat

Artist/Maker Arthur Putnam United States, 1873 - 1930
Date1916 - 1922
MediumBronze
Dimensions7 × 21 × 9 1/2 in. (17.8 × 53.3 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 1998 Collectors Circle, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1998.074
ClassificationsSculpture
Keyword
SignedSigned
InscribedSigned: Putnam no. 4
On View
On view
DescriptionSculpture of a tiger in combat with a python. The snake is wrapped itself around the tiger's body and both face each other with mouths open and teeth bared
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Lovers (Nuzzling Pumas)
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1904
Reclining Puma
Arthur Putnam
1907
Man and Lion
Arthur Putnam
sculpted 1917; cast 1921
Crouching Tigers
Anna Hyatt Huntington
n.d.
Tiger Sketches
Alexander Calder
1925 - 1926
Tiger Sketches
Alexander Calder
1925 - 1926
Sketch for Wetback
Robert F. Kuhn