My Life In Art - The Dwight Kirsch Biography

One summer, about 1934, Kirsches drove to the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota. On their way home they stopped in Atkinson, making a “grand entrance” with a unique automobile bumper decoration - a ram's skull! The sun-bleached skull with its thick horns curling and twisting out from the top of its head soon became the subject of a tempra painting, which Dwight named “Aries ... ................
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