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Wyoming Sage
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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
Date1902
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 26 x 46 in. (66 x 116.8 cm) frame: 32 1/2 x 52 1/2 x 2 in. (82.6 x 133.4 x 5.1 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.115
ClassificationsPainting
Signed lower right, C. Rungius
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 and the signature.