Trimmed and Partially Hand-colored 1912 Press Photo of Puma vintage sketch but I couldn’t resist it

but I couldn’t resist it for the determined effort of its maker to fully honor the fantastic patterns of the wood duck in a most excellent palette

and for the thinking and making process it represents

and a series of works on paper based on them

appearing never to have been used or worn

Trimmed and Partially Hand-colored 1912 Press Photo of Puma vintage sketch but I couldn’t resist itFrom the caption on the back of it, it seems this 1912 photograph was used for a Tribune story that somehow related to the relationship between Puma and elks ("the Puma, or mountain lion, was formerly the elk's worst enemy" suggesting that either Puma's had decided to lay off elks or that a fiercer predator of elks had emerged.) Whatever the case, what a beautiful creature, certainly looking like the king of his domain here and also in perfect