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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 numberW1999.130
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
Hemingway's Dream
Theodore Waddell
1992
African Elephant
Wilhelm Kuhnert
1918
A Herd of Zebras
Wilhelm Kuhnert
1908
Untitled - Elephants
Paul Bransom
c. 1940
Elephant, African Suite
Robert F. Kuhn
1996
Courtship of Two Elephants
Sally James Farnham
c. 1921
Wounded Comrade
Carl Ethan Akeley
1918
Indian Elephant
Wilhelm Kuhnert
c. 1916
African Lions
Wilhelm Kuhnert
c. 1911