Long-Tailed Red Fox

John Woodhouse Audubon

National Gallery of Art

This is a painting of a fox walking towards the left through a landscape with tall grass. The ground is light yellow underneath the fox, with dark brown areas around the edges of the painting. Around the fox there are small shoots of grass in dark shades of brown, green, and yellow. Behind the fox, on the right, the grass is taller. The fox is painted in shades of white, yellow, and orange, with brown stripes across its body and tail. Its ears are up, its dark eyes look to the left, and its long bushy tail hangs down to the ground. In the background are low green hills, and the sky is mostly white, with a strip of light gray at the top and an area of burnt orange on the left side.