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Courtesy of Ken Carlson, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Image: Courtesy of Ken Carlson, National Museum of Wildlife Art
In the Heart of the Elk Country
Courtesy of Ken Carlson, National Museum of Wildlife Art

In the Heart of the Elk Country

Artist/Maker, United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1898
MediumGouache and Ink on Paper*
Dimensions18 x 12 in.*
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0106
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right, C. Rungius
Subject
Categorywildlife
Illustration
Joseph B. Doe, Ex-Assistant Secretary of War. “An Elk Hunt in the Rockies.” Outing 32, no. 6 (September 1898), illustrated p. 588.
DescriptionIn a wooded landscape, a bull elk stands in the foreground, three-quarter view facing right, with two or three female elk behind him. Four elk depicted.Bibliography