Skip to main contentDescriptionAmong sage and mesas in the distance, a female bison stands with her calf close to her side while a coyote in the foreground in profile, his head turned away from viewer, looks at them. Two bison and one coyote depicted.Bibliography
Protected
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius,
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1904
MediumGouache and Ink on Paper*
Dimensions18 x 12 in.*
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0248
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; Macmillan Company
IllustrationCaspar Whitney, Owen Wister, and George Bird Grinnell. Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat. The American Sportsman’s Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904, illustrated p. 139.