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Near Mount Athabaska (Athabasca)
Courtesy Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Near Mount Athabaska (Athabasca)

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1913
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 40 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. (101.9 x 81.6 cm)
Credit LineBuffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Whitney Museum of Western Art, Gift of Frank H. Goodyear. 4.90
Object numberCC.0091
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius
Categorywildlife
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York), by 1965; [to] Frank H. Goodyear, 1965; to Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, 1990
DescriptionThree rams; two together in foreground, one following. Snow-clad mountain behind, top in clouds," from 1913 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).
Three bighorn sheep depicted.
AthabascaCuratorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Near Mount Athabaska. Three rams; two together in foreground, one following. Snowclad mountain behind, top in clouds.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, Xxc. no. 44285, Jul. 29, 1913. 
Athabasca

Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "at Mt. Athabasca," PA-1875-267.