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Description: BLACK WOODEN RECTANGULAR UPRIGHT FRAME. BLACK AND WHITE REPRODUCTION OF PEN & INK DRAWING; WHITE MATTE BOARD. DEPICTS HORSE BEING ATTACKED BY LION (ON HORSE'S BACK). TITLED AND SIGNED IN PENCIL AT BOTTOM "THE KING & A WILDERNESS DEVIL"; "E.F. HAGELL". BROWN PAPER BACKING.

History: BY DONORS' FATHER, EDWARD FREDRIC HAGELL (1895-1964). ORIGINAL WORK DONE IN 1927. DESCRIPTIVE LABEL READS "AN OLD SADDLE HORSE HAS BEEN RETURNING TO HIS RANGE ACROSS TIMBERED COUNTRY AND HAS BEEN JUMPED BY A BIG LION WHO HAS MISSED HIS SLASH FOR THE JUGULAR VEIN. THE OLD HORSE, TIED IN A MIGHTY KNOT OF UNLEASED ENERGY AND SPRING STEEL MUSCLE, HAS THE LION OFF BALANCE AND NOT EVEN HIS AWFUL FLENSING TALONS CAN HOLD HIM FOR HIS TERRIBLE RIDE." SEE PERMANENT FILE. ***NOTE: DRAWING AND MATTE REMOVED FROM FRAME. MOVED TO COMPACT STORAGE 16 APRIL 2008*** *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS, INCLUDING THE VARIOUS DONATIONS PERTAINING TO EDWARD FREDERICK HAGELL. SEE RECORD P19960053001 FOR AN EXTENDED BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST; SEE PERMANENT FILES P19960053001, P20040009001, P20060027001, P20070008001, AND P20070012001 FOR NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, DETAILS ON PAST GALT DIRECTOR/CURATOR WILMA WOOD'S BOOK ON THE ARTIST, AND CORRESPONDANCE WITH THE HAGELL FAMILY.