2025 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 197197 / 354 • View Catalog •
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VERSO
Signed and titled
Label, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Label, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming
The artist wrote, “To contemplate the rhino is to take a trip back into a prehistoric time. The dim-witted though formidable beast could play a starring role in Jurassic Park were his taxonomy somewhat different.
“I have a friend, an ex-professional hunter and now a skilled sculptor of wildlife, who has spent the best part of a decade getting himself rebuilt after being tossed toward the moon by a rhino. I guess I could say he’s lucky to be alive, though I don’t know if he shares that sentiment.
“The composition in this work is elliptical, with the egrets prescribing the ellipse. There may have been equally effective resolutions to the design of this piece, but this one pleased me, at least.”
PROVENANCE
The artist
Yturria Collection, Brownsville, Texas
EXHIBITED
Rendezvous Exhibition, The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1994
Bob Kuhn: Painting the Wild, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, 2002
LITERATURE
The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn: A Lifetime of Drawing and Painting, North Light Publishers, 1973, p. 112, illustrated
Tom Davis, The Art of Bob Kuhn, Briar Patch Press, 1989, pp. 62-63, illustrated
Wild Harvest: The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn, Sporting Classics & Wildlife Art Magazine, 1997, pp. 22-23, illustrated
Adam Duncan Harris, Bob Kuhn: Drawing on Instinct, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, pp. 286-87, illustrated
