The Big Country

Artist/Maker Lanford Monroe (United States, 1950 - 2000)

Date1999

MediumOil on Canvas

Dimensionsimage: 32 × 48 in. (81.3 × 121.9 cm) frame: 45 3/4 × 61 1/2 in. (116.2 × 156.2 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Terms

Object numberJL2000.020

DescriptionInspired by both Glacier-Waterton Parks and the expanse of the lands surrounding them "The Big Country" is a response to the feeling of space and your own diminished importance in a landscape that big. The grizzlies, for the artist, are synonymous with the wild.

Status

Not on view

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