Skip to main contentDescriptionThree 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
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
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
On View
On viewPhotograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-123.
Third title, Hillbillies, from Glenbow negative folder.
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.
Francis Lee Jaques