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Hanging Grouse
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Hanging Grouse

Artist/Maker Alexander Pope United States, 1849 - 1924
Datec. 1890
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 × 20 in. (71.1 × 50.8 cm) frame: 35 1/2 × 29 1/4 in. (90.2 × 74.3 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1999.025
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned lower right
On View
On view
DescriptionTwo dead grouse hang down against a black background.Trompe l'oeil. Could be the now extinct Heath Hen, an eastern relative of the great Prairie Chicken, more common in the western plains. See Kemeys Prairie Chicken