Impressionist landscape with an alligator emerging from a pond and a Spanish moss-covered tree in the foreground and two hunters walking among tall grasses and palms in the midground.

Hunting Alligators

Artist Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874 - 1939)

Datec. 1926

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 32 in. (66 × 81.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineThe Florida Art Collection, Gift of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers

Object number2020.18.502

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Visual DescriptionImpressionist landscape with an alligator emerging from a pond and a Spanish moss-covered tree in the foreground and two hunters walking among tall grasses and palms in the midground.

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