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Elephants

Artist/Maker Wilhelm Kuhnert Germany, 1865 - 1926
Datec. 1917
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 48 × 86 in. (121.9 × 218.4 cm) frame: 60 × 98 1/2 × 4 7/16 in. (152.4 × 250.2 × 11.3 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberJL1999.130
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned lower left
On View
On view
DescriptionHerd of elephants, led by a large bull elephant, charge toward the viewer, appearing to run across an open, grassy field to escape a brush fire.Curatorial Remarks
Exhibitions
Elephants in a Landscape
Wilhelm Kuhnert
1905
Elephant, African Suite
Robert F. Kuhn
1996
A Herd of Zebras
Wilhelm Kuhnert
1908
Kudu
Wilhelm Kuhnert
c. 1907
Hemingway's Dream
Theodore Waddell
1992
African Elephant
Wilhelm Kuhnert
1918
Untitled - Elephants
Paul Bransom
c. 1940
Herd of Zebra
Wilhelm Kuhnert
Stung
Carl Ethan Akeley
1914
Courtship, Two Elephants
Sally James Farnham
c. 1921