Skip to main contentDescriptionA buck and doe white-tailed deer (Virginia deer) stand in shallow water at the edge of a lake. The doe drinks while the buck, his head up, listens. Two deer depicted.Bibliography
Virginia Deer Coming to Water
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius,
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1902
MediumGouache and Ink on Paper*
Dimensionsimage: 12 x 18 in.*
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0238
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; Macmillan Company
IllustrationTheodore Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson Stone, Daniel Giraud Elliot, and Theodore Strong Van Dyke. The Deer Family. The American Sportsman’s Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902, illustrated facing p. 88.