2018 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 39
39
Bob Kuhn (1920 – 2007)
At the Edge of the Boreal Forest
acrylic on board
8 × 14 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Signed
Describing this painting the artist wrote, “While in northern Manitoba scouting polar bears, I gathered some landscape details that I felt would be well-suited as a setting for barren-ground caribou. The only caribou we saw were far below our bush plane as we flew out to locate bears on the forming ice. With the well-documented background material and the sure knowledge that caribou favored the country, a painting, albeit a small one, was inevitable.”
LITERATURE
Tom Davis, The Art of Bob Kuhn (Camden, SC: Briar Patch Press, 1989), pp 50-51, illustrated