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Coming to the Call
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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
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 view
DescriptionOne bull moose broadside facing left walking towards water's edge, forest surrounds him in the background.Curatorial Remarks
Back 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. 
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
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