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Three Billies
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Three Billies

Alternate Title(s)
  • Billy Goats
  • Hillbillies
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Datec. 1940
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 25 × 30 in. (63.5 × 76.2 cm) frame: 29 1/2 × 34 1/2 in. (74.9 × 87.6 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.094
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Categorywildlife
On View
On view
DescriptionThree Billy goats on rock. The brown rocks move diagonally across the picture plane from the left to take up most of the canvas. Another mountain range can be seen in the distance with some grass and snow on its peak. Blue sky with full white clouds. White goats walk in a line towards the back of the painting.Curatorial Remarks
Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-123. 
 
Third title, Hillbillies, from Glenbow negative folder.

NMWA object file notes that this is set on the trail between Lake O'Hara and Lake Macarthur.
Courtesy Glenbow Museum
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