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Virginia Deer Coming to Water
Ken Carlson, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Virginia Deer Coming to Water

Artist/Maker, 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
Categorywildlife
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. 88.
DescriptionA 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