The new exhibit “Survival of the Fittest” — 45 works by Carl Rungius, Richard Friese, Wilhelm Kuhnert and Bruno Liljefors — opens Saturday at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. This is Kuhnert’s “Elephants,” circa 1917, a 48-by86-inch oil on canvas.
The new exhibit “Survival of the Fittest” — 45 works by Carl Rungius, Richard Friese, Wilhelm Kuhnert and Bruno Liljefors — opens Saturday at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. This is Kuhnert’s “Elephants,” circa 1917, a 48-by86-inch oil on canvas.
This weekend the National Museum of Wildlife Art will unveil a new exhibit that is bound to stun wildlife artists as much as it will art fans and wildlife enthusiasts.
Featuring 45 masterworks by an influential group of painters known today as the Big Four — German-born Carl Rungius (1869-1959), Germans Richard Friese (1854-1918) and Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), and Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) from Sweden — the exhibit has been decades in the making, Curator Adam Duncan Harris said, with some art pulled from the museum’s collection and other on loan from other institutions.
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