Limited-edition printGame birds12
Headin’ for Shelter
- Year
- 19742
- Medium
- Signed and numbered limited-edition print, in dealers’ listings. No source read names the printing process.1
- Edition
- 1,500 signed and numbered, in a dealer’s listing1
- Size
- Image 17 × 24¼ in1
- Publisher
- Kouba himself, according to a dealer2
- Issue price
- [issue price not confirmed]
Thirteen pheasants on a farm. Kouba called it probably the most important painting he ever did: the A-bomb, in his words, that started the wildlife art boom in America. He said he could not sign the prints as fast as people were buying them.1
It is the first of three Shelter pictures. He painted the same thirteen birds at the same farm for In Shelter and Leavin’ Shelter, with a cottontail that he carried through all three.13
What it sells for
Headin’ for Shelter rarely comes up for sale: the snapshot collected 13 November 2026 holds no sold listing for this title.
With so few sales of one title, the artist-level range is the better guide. Recent eBay sold listings for Les Kouba ranged from $8 to $1,950, with a median of $55
- Low
- $8
- 25th percentile
- $35
- Median
- $55
- 75th percentile
- $75
- High
- $1,950
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How to identify it
A giclée on canvas was made after his death, in an edition of 913 with an 18 × 28 inch image. It is not signed by hand: his name appears only as he painted it, at the lower left of the image.21
Les Kouba prints in general
Dealers describe his limited editions as signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.45
Look for the thirteen. Kouba said he made a point of putting thirteen of something into each picture, and dealers point it out: thirteen fish houses in Winter Fishing Memories, thirteen pheasants in the Shelter pictures. His signature includes a small duck drawn in three strokes.671
The same picture often exists in several forms. A dealer lists Darkhouse Spearing as a signed and numbered edition of 3,000 and as an open-edition Legacy print with no number. Legacy prints are reprints in an open edition, and some small open-edition prints are signed.8910
This print on eBay now
See Headin’ for Shelter by Les Kouba in eBay’s Art category. Auctions are listed ending soonest first; many sellers also take a Best Offer.
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Sources
- Headin' For Shelter - Pheasants By Les C Kouba. Art Barbarians (Rogers, MN).
- HEADIN' FOR SHELTER Giclee on Stretched Canvas by Les Kouba - Alliance Art Publishing. Alliance Art Publishing (Cable, WI).
- Leslie Kouba. National Museum of Wildlife Art.
- DARKHOUSE FINALE by Les Kouba - Alliance Art Publishing. Alliance Art Publishing (Cable, WI).
- First Snow - American Elk By Les Kouba. Art Barbarians (Rogers, MN).
- About Les Kouba | Les Kouba Outdoors. Les Kouba Outdoors.
- Winter Fishing Memories - Ice Fishing By Les C. Kouba. Art Barbarians (Rogers, MN).
- Darkhouse Spearing By Les Kouba. Art Barbarians (Rogers, MN).
- Les Kouba Winter Fishing Memories - WildlifePrints.com. WildlifePrints.com (Annandale, MN).
- Daybreak On The Marshes - Duck Hunters By Les Kouba. Art Barbarians (Rogers, MN).