Carl Brenders "Rocky Kingdom - Bighorn Sheep" Signed Limited Edition Lithograph, 1992

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Signed and numbered limited edition lithograph by Carl Brenders (Belgian, b. 1937), published by Mill Pond Press, Venice, Florida, in … Read more Signed and numbered limited edition lithograph by Carl Brenders (Belgian, b. 1937), published by Mill Pond Press, Venice, Florida, in 1992.

Three Rocky Mountain bighorn rams crowd the foreground against a wall of scree and open sky, every strand of fleece and growth ring of horn rendered in Brenders' famously exacting detail. The artist did his field work for this painting at Glacier National Park and set himself an unusual challenge: an alpine scene built almost entirely from brown tones, with a rare expanse of sky to give the sensation of standing above the timberline. The battle-worn horns of the rams were a detail he singled out as a favorite to paint.

Brenders is regarded as one of the world's finest wildlife painters. Trained at the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp, he illustrated more than 20 volumes of the European series The Secret Life of Animals before turning to fine art, developing his signature mixed media technique of watercolor and gouache. His work has been shown regularly in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's Birds in Art exhibition and is collected across North America and Europe.
Hand signed in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered 1406/1750 in pencil lower left, with the in-plate signature Brenders © 91 within the image. Edition of 1,750 plus 76 artist's proofs, printed by Litho-Krome on all-rag, acid-free, pH-neutral coated paper.

A complete collector's package: includes the original Mill Pond Press Certificate of Authenticity, the artist biography card, the image narrative card with Brenders' own commentary, and the original publisher's folder with Mill Pond foil seal intact.

Image size 21 5/8" x 30 7/8". Paper size 26 7/8" x 35 7/8". Unframed, stored flat in the original folder since publication. See less