Fire Storm

Details

Bob Kuhn (American, 1920-2007)
Fire Storm
signed 'Kuhn' (upper left)
acrylic on masonite
23¾ x 48 in. (60.3 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1975.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist.

Literature

Tom Davis, Wild Harvest The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn, Sporting Classics and Wildlife Art Magazine, 1997, p. 69, illustrated.

Exhibited

Jackson Hole, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Bob Kuhn: Painting The Wild, 7 June-22 September, 2002, illustrated in catalogue pl. 6.
Los Olivos, Wildlife Art Museum, Bob Kuhn: Mammals Up Close and Personal, 17 September, 2005-8 January, 2006.

Lot Essay

Kuhn described this inspiration for this work, 'This is a fanciful rendition of an emergency most wild creatures learn to cope with. The mule deer running ahead of the tree-gobbling inferno don't know it, but within a year or two the charred forest floor will be covered with new growth and their food supply will have been refurbished by something that's not only destructive, but life-giving as well.' (op. cit., p. 69).

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