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A Shot at Elk
Ken Carlson, National Museum of Wildlife Art

A Shot at Elk

Artist/Maker, United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1902
MediumGouache and Ink on Paper*
Dimensions18 x 12 in.*
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0241
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius
Keyword
Subject
Categorywildlife/domestic/human
ProvenanceThe artist; Macmillan Company
Illustration
Theodore 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. 152.
DescriptionHunter in left foreground next to a tree, his horse to the left of that, shooting into the distance at a herd of elk. A bull elk has been shot and is falling while the others scatter. One man, one horse and three or four elk depicted.Bibliography