Landscape with Geese

Oil painting on paper "Landscape with Geese" by Hans Kleiber. It is a landscape depicting a lake in the foreground. The bank has an evergreen cluster of trees along the proper left. Ten geese in flight in "V" formation. Storm clouds and rain moves over lake in the middle ground. Background has another flock of birds in "V" formation.

Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) was a painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber worked for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife.