The Boar Hunt

Artist Lorentz Kleiser (American, 1879 - 1963)

Manufacturer Edgewater Tapestry Looms (c. 1913 - 1933)

Mediumwoven wool with vegetable dyes

Dimensions50 1/2 × 80 1/2 inches (128.3 × 204.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Margaret A. Benckenstein, 2018

Object number2018.7.1

ClassificationsTextiles

Label TextKleiser followed a European tradition for the subject of this work. Hunting scenes were fitting subjects to adorn castles and villas. Since ancient times, the boar symbolized a worthy adversary for the hunter. The boar was ferocious and fought back. Kleiser adapted the subject for an early twentieth-century interior. It provided an image of courage for an American building. The subject continues to have relevance today. Wild pigs provide a challenge to contemporary resource management. Some of these animals descend from Eurasian wild boars. Those boars were introduced here for recreational hunting. They escaped and mated with other feral pigs. They continue as objects for the hunt.

ProvenanceArtist; 1950 [1] to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haight Benckenstein, Jr., Orange, Texas; by inheritance in 1998 to their daughter Margaret A. Benckenstein, Beaumont, Texas; gifted October 10, 2018 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art | 1. Unknown whether the Benckensteins acquired the tapestry from the artist by gift or by purchase

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