Skip to main contentDescriptionFive caribou make their way over a rocky path. The largest caribou is on the left side of the painting following the rest of the herd over the rocks towards the right side of the patining. The sky is filled with grey stormy looking clouds and the jagged outine of a mountain range can be seen in the background.Curatorial Remarks
Fall Storm
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Datec. 1935
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 24 × 32 in. (61 × 81.3 cm)
frame: 28 1/4 × 36 1/4 in. (71.8 × 92.1 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.112
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
SignedSigned
InscribedLower right hand corner.
On View
Not on viewIn an envelope labeled "Painted in California," there is a photograph (proof sheet?) from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-76-B, featuring three images:Tundra (detail), CC.0736; Fall Storm, M1987.112; and Three Stags, CC.0265. Rungius in California fall-winter of 1934-35 and fall-winter of 1935-36.
This envelope also holds PA-1875-76-A, featuring two small unfinished images of Fall Storm, canvas unsigned. (Pack Horses Returning, CC.0659, is visible hanging on the wall in the background.)
Second envelope holds larger print of PA-1875-76-A (dupl), also notes that it was painted in California and that the original is small.
The NMWA's Fall Storm is medium in size, 24x32, but matches PA-1875-76-B, retaining most of the bull caribou and the large rocky feature to his left as depicted in PA-1875-76-A.