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Russell's Trail of the Iron Horse watercolor (depicting a group of horseback Native Americans contemplating railroad track) sold for $1.9 million, while Dakota Chief (which depicts a young Lakota chieftain on horseback) was auctioned for $1.1 million (almost double the last price it commanded). Even small pencil sketches sold for $25,000. [24]
The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.
The live action film Born Free (1966), based on the true story from the bestselling book of the same title, covered the story of the Kenyan lioness Elsa, and the efforts of Joy Adamson and her game-warden husband George to train Elsa for release back into the wild. Roar (1981) features numerous untrained lions, three of which were credited as ...
Title: Red Horse drawing of cavalry troops on horseback at Little Bighorn, 1881. Contained in: Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. Phy. Description: 1 drawing : graphite, colored pencil, and ink ; 61 x 92 cm. Digital Reference: Image Place of creation: United States South Dakota Cheyenne River Agency.
Ila Mae McAfee (October 21, 1897 [1] or 1900 [2] – April 18, 1995), also known as Ila McAfee Turner, was an American painter, muralist, illustrator and author.She was born in or near Gunnison, Colorado and known for her miniatures and as an animalier and muralist.
The Lion Hunt, painted more than twenty years after his expedition to Morocco, was also influenced by the hunt pictures of the seventeenth-century master Peter Paul Rubens, such as The Lion Hunt. The most monumental version of the series is the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux version from 1855 whose top half was severely damaged during a fire ...
The drawing is related to the painting W37 : The Raising of the Cross: 1628-1629: Black chalk, heightened with white, framing lines in pencil and with the pen and brown ink: 19.3 x 14.8 cm: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: The drawing is related to the painting W106 : Two Sitting Figures: c. 1628-1629: Black chalk: 19.3 x 14.8 cm
Puma (/ ˈ p j uː m ə / or / ˈ p uː m ə /) is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, [2] among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).