WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (1866-1955)
WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (1866-1955)
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WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (1866-1955)

Pronghorn

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WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (1866-1955)
Pronghorn
signed and dated 'W.R. Leigh/1911.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 x 19 in. (53.3 x 48.3 cm.)
Painted in 1911.
Provenance
Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1984.
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Morgan Walker, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2011.
Exhibited
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., Call of the Wild: The Primal Adventure, October 18-November 10, 1984.
Palm Beach, Florida, The Society of the Four Arts, Recapturing the Real West: Collections of William I. Koch, February 4-April 15, 2012.

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Lot Essay

The Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is one of the most unique animals in the American West, indigenous only to western and central North America. Noted for being the fastest animal native to the continent, able to achieve speeds greater than 50 miles per hour, and for a single herd's migration stretching over 150 miles from Wyoming’s Upper Green River Basin to Grand Teton National Park, the ungulate has long been an animal of interest for inhabitants of the West.

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