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Bart Walter's Wapiti Monument Is Conduit Between National Museum and Landscape

In 2012, the National Museum of Wildlife Art will celebrate its 25th birthday.  Yet when the new edifice of the museum opened a few years ago, it confronted a rather novel challenge.  Rising high above the National Elk Refuge along a well-traveled highway leading to Grand Teton National Park, the museum often was overlooked by passersby.  Indeed, the intent of construction always had been to achieve subtlety rather than lord over the natural landscape.

Wrestling with the question of how to draw the attention of travelers without erecting a gaudy billboard, the decision was made to mark the entrance

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