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VERSO
Exhibition label, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Discussing this painting the artist wrote, “It’s pretty easy, living as we do in the Sonoran Desert, to find any desired bit of plant or rock detail within short driving distance. In this simple format I chose to use a defunct agave or century plant as a major design element, with the bobcat and his rocky resting place as the other ingredients. It might be called a still-life, though it isn’t one, strictly speaking.”

PROVENANCE
The Artist
[Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, AZ, 1987]
The Collection of Jean and J. Dawson Burns, Tucson, AZ, 1987

EXHIBITED
Summer Show, Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, AZ, June 1987
Bob Kuhn: Painting the Wild, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY, June 7 - Sept 22, 2002

LITERATURE
Bob Kuhn, Wild Harvest: The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn (Columbia, SC and Minneapolis, MN: Sporting Classics & Wildlife Art Magazine, 1997), pages 100- 101, illustrated
Exhibition Catalog, Bob Kuhn: Painting the Wild (Jackson, WY: National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2002), page 55, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface condition is excellent. No signs of inpainting or restoration.

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