Skip to main contentDescriptionOne bull moose broadside facing left walking towards water's edge, forest surrounds him in the background.Curatorial Remarks
Drypoint print, Coming to the Call, dated April, 1937.
Image illustrated in Crouch 1989 is archival photo, Glenbow Archives, Calgary PA-1875-176.
Coming to the Call
Alternate Title(s)
- An Impending Tragedy
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Datec. 1934
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 1/8 x 45 1/4 in. (76.5 x 114.9 cm)
frame: 35 1/4 x 50 5/16 x 1 5/8 in. (89.5 x 127.8 x 4.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Annette Merle-Smith, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2023.001
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to Van Santvoord Merle-Smith; by descent through family to Annette Merle-Smith; to Meg Bergstrand; to National Museum of Wildlife Art
On View
Not on viewBack of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "'Coming to the Call' / New Brunswick," PA-1875-176.
Drypoint print, Coming to the Call, dated April, 1937.
Image illustrated in Crouch 1989 is archival photo, Glenbow Archives, Calgary PA-1875-176.