Skip to main contentDescriptionBow divide. Snow covered mountain peaks with sun shining on them.Curatorial Remarks
The Bow Divide, Canadian Rockies
Alternate Title(s)
- The Bow Divide
- Canadian Rockies
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1915
Mediumoil on board
Dimensionsimage: 7 1/2 × 10 in. (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
frame: 20 1/4 × 18 1/2 in. (51.4 × 47 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1998.040
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius.
Inscribed
on back,
At the Head of / Vermilion Creek / Canadian Rockies / by / Carl Rungius / presented to me on May 8, 1916 / Geo M. Bruestle
Inscribed
label on reverse,
Salmagundi Club
Region
Categorylandscape study
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on viewThe former owner of this painting is painter George M. Bruestle (American, 1871-1939). Bruestle worked at the same time as Rungius, perhaps in the same circle as Gardner Symons, an acknowledged influence on Rungius. Bruestle handled elements of the landscape in quick daubs of paint, in an impressionistic fashion. Rungius began to paint similarly as his style developed in the years between 1910 and 1920.
Conrad Schwiering
Ken Carlson