Carl Brenders "Witness of a Past - Bison" Signed Limited Edition Print 39/950, 1988, Framed

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A pencil signed and numbered limited edition print of Carl Brenders' "Witness of a Past - Bison." A bull bison … Read more A pencil signed and numbered limited edition print of Carl Brenders' "Witness of a Past - Bison." A bull bison fills the frame in close profile, his dark winter coat and curved horn painted hair by hair as he moves through tall autumn grass, sunflowers and tangled deadfall, with a second bison in the meadow behind him.

Pencil signed by the artist at lower right and numbered 39/950 at lower left, with the plate signature "© C Brenders 88" in the image. The edition was 950 signed and numbered prints. Brenders' original 1988 gouache for this image is in the collection of the Tacoma Art Museum.

Carl Brenders was born in 1937 near Antwerp, Belgium, and studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp and later in Berchem. He illustrated more than 20 books in the series The Secret Life of Animals, and his work has been shown regularly in the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's "Birds in Art" exhibition and in its 1987 "Wildlife in Art" show.

Framed without glass in a walnut wood frame with a natural linen mat, a brown inner mat and a white fillet.

Image: 19 x 14 1/4 inches. Framed: 23 3/4 inches wide x 28 1/4 inches high. See less