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Montague Island Bear
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Montague Island Bear

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1912
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm) frame: 23 5/8 × 17 5/8 × 2 7/8 in. (60 × 44.8 × 7.3 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.095
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
SignedSigned
InscribedLower right hand corner.
On View
Not on view
DescriptionOne bear looking over a snowy ridge. Grey, winter scene. The bear is in the center of the canvas, with the white hill taking up the bottom portion of the painting. Printed in Charles Sheldon, The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands, 1912 (cover and frontispiece).