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A herd of eight caribou in a snowy landscape, descend a mountain slope walking left to right.
Curatorial RemarksBibliography
Wanderers of the North
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1908
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Credit LineLast known with Christie's, Los Angeles, 1999
Object numberCC.0056
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
reverse,
C. Rungius
Subject
Categorywildlife
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, New York), by 1968; to private collection, by 1975; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York); Daniel M. Galbreath; to Daniel M. Galbreath Estate, 1995; to (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Hayden, Idaho), July 27, 1996; (Christie's, Los Angeles), April 29, 1999
Description"Bunch of caribou, the cows ahead, the buck following, going down into a valley," from 1908 copyright registration form (Class I: Works of Art).A herd of eight caribou in a snowy landscape, descend a mountain slope walking left to right.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Wanderers of the north. Bunch of caribou, the cows ahead, the buck following, going down into a valley.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 25239, Apr. 20, 1908.
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