24 3/4" by 30 3/4" framed. Title is Protecting the Herd. Elmer Sprunger grew up on the west side of the Rockies around Bigfork, Flathead and Swan Lake. His sophomore year of high school was in Butte, where his art teacher was Elizabeth Lochrie. Her lessons took hold. Sprunger married Marie in 1940, and they moved to Seattle where his art training helped him to draw the patterns for Liberty Ships onto huge steel plates and to learn drafting. He worked in the woods cutting vitally needed timber and then joined the Army. After a year in California and another in Hawaii, he returned to the Olympic Peninsula where he worked in logging, construction, and road-building. In 1950 he came back to his boyhood haunts near Swan Lake. Besides carpentry, he did sign painting and made posters. His goal was never art so much as hunting and fishing. The three went together in his thinking. He and Marie have built their own comfortable house. Two of his major principles are fitting the animals to the land, so that none show up in a painting where they would never be in life, and making each animal a unique individual. He does use a camera, but only to record details for reference later.