Aurora Borealis
1906
20th Century
20 in. x 12 3/4 in. (508 mm. x 323.85 mm.)
Arthur Heming,
(1870–1940)
Medium and Support:
oil on canvas board
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Helen D. Perkins
Accession Number:
1970.1
Painting of a wolf standing on a snowy precipice looking over teams of dog sleds. On the horizon the northern lights are flashing. Appeared as an illustration for Heming's article, "Postmen of the Wilderness," New York Tribune Sunday Magazine, December 15, 1907, p. 7. Caption read: "The Wolves Were a Match for Half a Dozen Dogs."