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Nothing softens a home office like a painted surface. In the Tetons by William Herbert Dunton arrives as a hand painted oil painting on canvas, offering the fine art detail, soft gradients, and tactile finish that fine art oil painting shoppers look for.
In the Tetons relates to a group of elk paintings and a lithograph that William Herbert "Buck" Dunton produced between 1925 and his death in 1936, including his well-known October in the Canyon Bottom (National Museum of Wildlife Art) and Elk in the Aspens (Harrison Eiteljorg collection on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum). Dunton was a contract meat hunter who operated in Montana and Wyoming in the late 1890s, and somewhat later in the Sangre de Cristos as an organizer of pack-horse trips. He hunted elk for much of his life and knew them perhaps better - inside and out - than any artist in the West. For his art, Dunton shot animals only when it was absolutely necessary. After making numerous sketches of the animal, both living and dead, he would skin the animal often allowing it to freeze in a particular position in order to study its musculature.
After he had become head of the Taos fish and game conservancy in the late teens, and his health began to fail in the 1920s, Dunton preferred to "dry" hunt. He only "took" big game with palette and brush, pencil and paper. In fact, he gave a radio address in
Kansas City in 1924 called "Hunt But Don't Kill All". Moreover, beginning in the mid-1920s, mature works such as In the Tetons give an increased prominence to the elk. Perhaps at some level this shift functioned as a sort of compensation for his no longer hunting the animal. In the Tetons belongs to a group of oils Dunton painted during the mid-to-late 1920s which measure 14 inches square. He found this to be an attractive format for his wild and domesticated animal subjects including not simply elk, but deer, black bears, and grizzlies.
The fine art subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of classic oil painting wall decor.
Expect subtle, hand-made variation rather than factory uniformity. Each fine art canvas is painted with oils, allowed to cure properly, and inspected before it is approved for shipment.
Wondering where fine art oil painting looks best? Try a home office mantel, a dining room sideboard, or a hallway gallery wall. The fine art subject reads clearly from a distance and rewards close viewing up near.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 20 in | $49.98 |
| 24 X 24 in | $62.48 |
| 30 X 30 in | $90.48 |
| 36 X 36 in | $142.48 |
| 40 X 40 in | $171.48 |
| 48 X 48 in | $215.98 |
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