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Lion
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In 1893, Edward Kemeys sculpted several pieces for the World’s Columbian Exposition, including the two lions that flank the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece may have been a study for those colossal creatures. Kemeys captured the lion’s proud stance and defiant stare. The stillness and alert pose create the sense that the animal has found its prey.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineLion. ca. 1893. Edward Kemeys, born Savannah, GA 1843-died Washington, DC 1907. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of J. Willis Johnson. CC0.
