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“Ultima Thule” Sheep Bronze by Tim Shinabarger

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“Ultima Thule” Sheep Bronze by Tim Shinabarger
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10,000.00USD+ applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2021 Dec 03 @ 21:24UTC-6 : CST/MDT
Donated by Tim Shinabarger

Ultima Thule — “A distant and unknown region, the extreme limit of travel and discovery.”

Tim Shinabarger is a Professional Member of the Boone and Crockett Club and an award-winning American sculptor and painter internationally known for his portrayals of wildlife. Today, his works in bronze can be found in major museums and private collections, including the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles and the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.

Dall sheep are an iconic species of one of the greatest wilderness regions left on earth. The Wrangell-St. Elias, Glacier Bay, and Kluane National Parks along with the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park combine to cover over twenty-four million acres—the largest protected continuous wilderness area in the world. It is a land of enormous mountains, icefields, and grinding glaciers, which create falling tremendous river valleys, tundra, and boreal forests.

During the summer many of the older rams will push to the very upper limits of plant life, right to the threshold where nothing exists but ice, rocks, and everlasting winter. To reach these animals, it requires great stamina and desire to traverse these areas with a heavy backpack and ice ax in hand. To witness these animals in their habitat is to feel the ominous power of nature at work—from the creak and groan of the glacier where you have pitched your tiny tent to the almost constant fall of rock and ice. It is a land that is literally changing right before your eyes.