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Quantrell Moose
Quantrell Moose

Quantrell Moose

Alternate Title(s)
  • Quantrell's Moose Triptych, New Brunswick
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1924
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 × 60 in. (71.1 × 152.4 cm) frame: 31 3/4 × 71 7/8 in. (80.6 × 182.6 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1991.019
ClassificationsPainting
Signed lower right of central panel, C. Rungius.
Inscribed stamped on canvas, Victor Claessens
Categorywildlife
On View
On view
DescriptionOne moose stands on the left side of a river looking across the river to the right. Rocks, trees and bushes line the banks. A green hill can be seen in the distance. Summer time image. Ernest Quantrell commissioned Rungius to create this painting of a moose looking across a lake to their cabin in Ontario. triptych.Curatorial Remarks
Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "Painted for Ernest Quantrell / for mantel, new home Scarsdale / center of tryptich - others landscape / landscape Ontario / Quantrell cabin across lake, left," PA-1875-225. site of cabin just cropped out here, to the right.
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