Skip to main contentDescriptionSow grizzly bear walks towards foreground in mountainous landscape, her two cubs in front of her and to the right. Three bears depicted.Curatorial Remarks
On the Homeward Trail (The Family)
Alternate Title(s)
- The Family
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1930
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage (27 x 35 1/4): 27 x 35 1/4 in. (68.6 x 89.5 cm)
frame: 35 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (90.2 x 110.5 x 8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lynn and Foster Friess, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2025.001
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius.
Inscribed
lower right,
1930.
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
SignedCarl Rungius 1930
Inscribed" 'On the Homeward Trail.' Painted for Mrs. Earle E. Bessey by Carl Rungius 1929-1930"
ProvenanceThe artist; to Mrs. Earle B. Bessey; P.A.B. Widener; P.A.B. Widener Estate; to (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada), July 22, 2006; to Lynn and Foster Friess; to National Museum of Wildlife Art, by gift, 2024.
On View
Not on viewDrypoint print, The Family, dated April, 1937.
Image of painting illustrated in Crouch 1989 is of archival photo, Glenbow Archives, Calgary PA-1875-20.
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction notes that on the canvas verso is written, "'On the Homeward Trail' painted for Mrs. Earle B. Bessey by Carl Rungius, 1929-1930"
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction notes that on the canvas verso is written, "'On the Homeward Trail' painted for Mrs. Earle B. Bessey by Carl Rungius, 1929-1930"
Robert F. Kuhn