Seagram's Sportsman Calendar

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Thanks are owed to the Niagara Falls Gallery for providing these images: 

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American Opossum, 1957 [the dates refer to the year of the calendar; the illustrations would have been created the year before. Invoices regularly are dated in June or July of the previous year. He was paid $1000 per image.] (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Glacier Bear, 1957 (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Mountain Lion, 1960

American Black Bear, 1946 or 1955?

Pronghorn Antelope, 1961

Coyotes. 1961

Bull Elk, 1962 (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Canadian Lynx and Porcupine, 1962

White Tail Deer (Deer Alarm), 1963

Compare to illustration in Charles G. D. Roberts, "Quills the Indifferent: An Adventure Story which Interprets Animal Life, McClure's, 1921, v. 53, p. 20.

Red Fox, 1963 (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

American Beaver

Black Bear and Cubs

Bison, 1954 (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Caribou

Elk

Grey Squirrel

Rabbit Spying Hounds

Grizzly Bear

Preparatory Drawing for Grizzly Bear.

Grizzly Bear Charging, 1945

Preparatory Drawing for Grizzly Bear.

Key Deer with Racoons

Moose, 1946.

Mountain Goats

Mountain Lion and Dogs: "At Bay", 1945

Mule Deer

Pacific Walrus, 1957 (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Otter

Preparatory Drawing for Otter

Polar Bear, 1951 (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Preparatory drawing for Polar Bear

Earlier version (private collection)

Prong Horned Antelopes

White Tailed Deer

Wild Boar (sold by Skinner's, 2004)

Wild Cat-Lynx

Skunks and Hound Dogs

Jaguar

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