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Alaskan Moose, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Courtesy Glenbow

Alaskan Moose, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1915
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 62 x 90 in. (157.5 x 228.6 cm)
Credit LineCollection of Glenbow R2643.10
Object numberCC.0096
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius.
Inscribed
lower left, © C. R.
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to New York Zoological Society; Collection of Glenbow
Illustration
Gallery of Wild Animal Paintings in the Zoological Park from the Collection of the New York Zoological Society. New York: New York Zoological Society (Charles Francis Press), 1930. n.p.
Description"An Alaskan Moose. A bull moose, very large, in foreground--broadside, head facing; cow on left, behind dead tree," from 1914 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).
Two moose depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/decription: An Alaskan Moose. A Bull Moose very large in foreground broadside, head facing. Cow on left behind dead tree.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), New York, N.Y.
Class G, XXc. no. 50224, Jul. 27, 1915.
 
Copyright card, Glenbow archives:
"An Alaskan Moose. A bull moose, very large, in foreground--broadside, head facing; cow on left, behind dead tree."
July 27, 1915. Class G, XXc., No. 50224
Glenbow Museum has a preliminary sketch for the head of the bull moose. 
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