Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife & Wilderness

Featured in Survival of the Fittest are 45 works created by an influential group of painters known today as the Big Four. Members Of the Big Four are American Carl Rungius, Germans Richard Friese and Wilhelm Kuhnert, and Swede Bruno Liliefors. Working during the late 1800s and early 1900s, these art...

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Published inAmerican art review Vol. 35; no. 2; p. 98
Main Author Harris, Adam Duncan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Stratham American Art Review 01.07.2023
Subjects
19th century
20th century
Art exhibits
Friese, Richard
Kuhnert, Wilhelm
Landscape art
Liljefors, Bruno
Rungius, Carl
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation
United States > US
Jackson Wyoming
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Summary:Featured in Survival of the Fittest are 45 works created by an influential group of painters known today as the Big Four. Members Of the Big Four are American Carl Rungius, Germans Richard Friese and Wilhelm Kuhnert, and Swede Bruno Liliefors. Working during the late 1800s and early 1900s, these artists presented a vision of wildlife and wilderness that remains with us to this day. These artists and their work are worthy of our attention because they were among the first, if not the first, classically trained painters to take their studies out into the field and study wildlife in wild places, placing primary value on the animal and its natural habitat.Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, is on view at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2820 Rungius Road, Jackson, Wyoming through August 20, 2023.
ISSN:0092-1327