"Tsavo Tusker on the Athi-Tiva River", 1965, at over 130 inches tall, is a colossal chromogenic print with gelatin silver prints, blood, paint and ink work. Seen here in its present owner's home, we see how impressive and commanding it appears in a space.

American artist and photographer Peter Beard has been photographing the wild animals and landscape of Africa since he was a teenager. Beard’s images explore animal populations and extinction due to the rise of big game hunting and deforestation. Part documentarian, part activist, Beard’s work captured the plight of a continent succumbing to industrialization. “The wilderness is gone,” the artist had said, “and with it much more than we can appreciate or predict. We'll suffer for it.” Born on January 22, 1938 in New York, NY the artist and diarist was educated at Yale University, studying art history with the famed abstract painter Josef Albers. After moving to Africa in the 1960s, Beard began to catalog the demise of elephants and rhinoceroses in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park. In 1975, while living in Nairobi, Beard spotted a beautiful university student named Iman. The photographer later brought her to New York, launching her career as a supermodel. Over the course of his career he collaborated with Andy Warhol, Richard Lindner, Francis Bacon, and others. Sadly, Beard died in April 2020 at the age of 82 after disappearing from his Long Island home and was found after an extensive, 19-day search effort.