Wyoming Herd Bull

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959

Date1906

MediumOil on Canvas

Dimensionsimage: 30 × 46 1/4 in. (76.2 × 117.5 cm) frame: 40 3/8 × 56 3/8 in. (102.6 × 143.2 cm)

Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Object numberJL2006.039

ClassificationsPainting

Signed? 1

Inscribed? 1

Subject

Categorywildlife

SignedSigned

InscribedLRC dated 1906

ProvenanceThe Artist; to John MacFarlane Phillips, 1906; to Private Collection (daughter of the above), 1954, by descent; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, New York); Private Collection, New Jersey, 1998; (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno), July 22, 2006; to Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, 2006; to JKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2006 (loan)

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Description"Defiance. Bugling elk standing in foreground silhouetted against light hazy landscape. a bunch of cows feeding, down into the picture behind him. Morninglight [sic] from the left. Two moss covered rocks in front of bull," from 1906 copyright registration, long form (Class I: Works of Art). Nine elk total, one bull, eight cows. Curatorial Remarks

Copyright title/description: Defiance. Bugling elk standing in foreground silhouetted against light hazy landscape, a bunch of cows feeding down into the picture behind him.

Class I, XXc, no. 17612, Apr. 7, 1906.

"Defiance." From copyright long form for photograph, April 11, 1906, Class H. XXc. No. 75417.

Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875 (no number).

Key period where early signature changes to mid-career signature. Compare cc.0018, copyright Feb 1906 (early) with JL2006.039, copyright April 1906.