USFWS Mountain Prairie

Bighorn Sheep Rams

Three bighorn rams in sleet on the National Elk Refuge. Outside the breeding season, rams keep to their own company.

Bighorn Sheep Rams
Bighorn Sheep Rams
Bighorn Sheep Rams shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Bighorn Sheep Rams shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Bighorn Sheep Rams shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
45 × 30 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work

Three bighorn rams move left to right in single file through sagebrush, the rearmost partly hidden behind the middle animal, with sleet streaking the air behind them. The photograph was made on the National Elk Refuge at the end of March 2020, in the months when the refuge's sheep can be watched from the Refuge Road.

Adult rams live apart from the ewes outside the breeding season, and rams join bands of other rams from two or three years old, so three of them travelling together is ordinary. Bighorn breeding runs through November and December and lambing from April to July; the last day of March sits in neither window.

Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
See all four in the room