NARROW ESCAPE A/P#4/76

(Limited Edition Print)

(SOLD OUT FROM THE PUBLISHER)

by: Carl Brenders

  • Image Size: 11¾"h x 8 7/8"w
  • Published: 1993
  • Issue Price: $180.
  • Edition size: 76
  • This is Print: Artist Proof A/P#4/76
  • Excellent Value HERE!
  • This limited edition print is signed and numbered by the artist and GUARANTEED to arrive in MINT condition.
  • Carl Brenders is one of the finest wildlife artists in the world.
  • We are offering this print in the original folder, never framed, with the original papers.
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CARL BRENDERS Carl Brenders' love for all creatures, from the friendly to the ferocious, is evident in his masterful attention to their every detail; nothing is overlooked. With his imagination, Brenders is able to get close enough to wild animals so that he can almost feel their textures. Consequently, his work has a tactile reality, giving us the sense of having been where even the most intrepid of field guides have not ventured. Of this ability Brenders says, "A painter is a privileged being, because in his imagination he can come very close to the animals he paints. In reality, one can never come this close to wild animals, particularly if they are predators." Brenders' insistence on anatomical perfection in his paintings stems from his philosophy that nature, itself, is perfection: 'That is why I paint the way I do with so much detail and so much realism' I want to capture that perfection," he says.

NARROW ESCAPE A/P#4/76
 

The nicest experiences on my first trips to the New World were the encounters with the many different kinds of small mammals, which are so easy to see. Americans and Europeans are different, and so are their animals. On any of my hiking trips in Europe, I cannot imagine ever seeing so many small creatures as I did in the American wild. North America is blessed with a wide range of squirrels and chipmunks, which are not shy at all.

On a one-day hike through Algonquin Park in Canada, I probably saw several hundred chipmunks running through the fallen leaves. Although they are ground squirrels, chipmunks climb in trees almost as fast as their cousins, the squirrels.

For a wildlife painter, it is a delight to capture such a sight in a painting. I love chipmunks so much that I could paint them for a long time—you could call it “Carl’s chipmunk period”—but so many other subjects are waiting. The beauty of nature is inexhaustible!--Carl Brenders

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