Wyoming Sage

Alternate Title(s)

“If that Buck Gets Away Mrs. White Will Be a Widow”

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

Date1903

MediumOil on Canvas

Dimensionsimage: 26 × 46 in. (66 × 116.8 cm) frame: 33 × 53 in. (83.8 × 134.6 cm)

Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Object numberM1987.115

ClassificationsPainting

Signed? 1

Keyword

Subject

Region

Wyoming, United States

Categorywildlife

Illustration

B. R. Beymer, “Among the Pronghorns,” Recreation 18, no. 3 (March 1903), illustrated p. 190.

On View

On view

DescriptionSix pronghorn stand in an open grassy field. The field moves back in the distance to meet the blue sky. The Pronghorn are positioned in the foreground and midground of the painting. Printed in Recreation Magazine, March 1903, "Among the Pronghorns," p. 190, caption, "If that buck gets away Mrs. White will be a widow."Curatorial Remarks

Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-316 / Pronghorn. Glenbow cataloguer has added, "Sagebrush 1907." We know this is earlier from the 1903 publication.