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Mexican Ground Squirrel
Mexican Ground Squirrel
Mexican Ground Squirrel

Mexican Ground Squirrel

Artist (American, 1812 - 1862)
Date1846
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions13 3/4 x 22 inches (34.9 x 55.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1991
Object number31.210.2
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextAfter The Birds of America, John James Audubon worked on another book. He titled it The Vivacious Quadrepeds of North America. That means four-legged animals that bear their young alive. His son John Woodhouse Audubon painted many of the images. The Mexican Ground Squirrel’s range includes southern and western Texas.
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York); purchased by Michael Zinman, New York, New York; purchased December 31, 1991 through (W. Graham Arader, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
On View
On view
Mexican Marmot-Squirrel
John Woodhouse Audubon
1848
Common or Virginian Deer
John Woodhouse Audubon
c.1845-1847
Mexican Woman
Fremont F. Ellis
Head of Mexican Man
Nicolai Fechin
1936 or after
The Mexican Cart
Ernest Martin Hennings
Mexican Sheep Herder
Ernest Martin Hennings
c. 1925
Mexican Boy
Nicolai Fechin
1936 or after
Fremont's Squirrel, Sooty Squirrel
John Woodhouse Audubon
1848
Collies Squirrel
John Woodhouse Audubon
1848
Californian Marmot Squirrel
John Woodhouse Audubon
1848