30th Running of the Beargrease painting
name: label: maker
content: Cortes, Tim
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Master canvas edition of artwork by Timothy William Cortes. The water color drawing was drawn from a photograph and depicts a musher in the background running his five sled dogs in the foreground. This was originally commissioned by the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon to celebrate their 30th year in northern Minnesota. This Master Canvas Edition was created specifically for the Smithsonian. John Beargrease was an Anishinabe Indian from Beaver Bay Minnesota, who with his brothers delivered the mail on the trails between Two Harbors and Grand Marais from 1879 and 1899. The John Beargrease Sled Dog race is the longest in the lower 48 at 400 miles long and is a qualifier for the Iditarod.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Dog Sled racing
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0119.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0119
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0119.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Water color master canvas
label: Object Name
content: painting, dog sledding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 in x 35 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 50.8 cm x 90.805 cm x 3.81 cm