White Tail Deer

Alternate Title(s)

White-Tail Deer

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

Date1933

MediumOil on Canvas

Dimensionsimage: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm) frame: 34 1/2 × 44 1/2 in. (87.6 × 113 cm)

Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Object numberM1987.093

ClassificationsPainting

Categorywildlife

DescriptionTwo white-tailed deer stand at a stream. The female deer is in the center of the painting, standing in the stream drinking from it. The male deer with large antlers stands to the left at the edge of the stream looking straight out at the viewer. A green hill can be seen in the distance as well as many trees. Summertime. From the New York Zoological Society collection.

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