December 7, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Journey into the vast wilderness and explore 45 masterworks from four influential wildlife painters, known today as the “Big Four.” Survival of the Fittest features the paintings of German-American Carl Rungius (1869-1959), German Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), Swede Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939), and German Richard Friese (1854-1918).
Exhibition Highlights
(ABOVE) Richard Friese, Tiger with Blackbuck, 1889, oil on canvas, Collection of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands; Richard Friese, Polar Bear and Eiders on the Coast, n.d., oil on canvas, Collection of the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands; Carl Rungius, Old Bald Face, c. 1935, oil on canvas, JKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Thanks to the members, donors, grantors, and sponsors who support exhibitions and programs. Exhibitions and programs are supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts and other sponsors. Marketing is supported in part by City of Wausau Room Tax funds.
