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On Northern Heights
Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art

On Northern Heights

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1906
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 x 46 in. (76.2 x 116.8 cm) frame: 36 1/16 x 52 3/16 x 2 1/4 in. (91.6 x 132.6 x 5.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Widener Charitable Limited Partnership, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1998.095
ClassificationsPainting
Signed lower right, C. Rungius.
Inscribed lower right, Copyright 1906.
Categorywildlife
Provenance(Christie's, New York), June 8, 1984; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries); to P. A. B. Widener, 1992; to The Widener Charitable Limited Partnership; to National Museum of Wildlife Art, 1998.
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Not on view
Description"On Northern Heights. Three white mountain Rams standing on top of a rugged mountain, two in foreground together on the right side, the third one above the toward the centre. Snow covered mountains in the distance," from copyright registration long form, Class I (Works of Art). Three sheep total. Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: On northern heights. Three mountain rams standing on top of a rugged mountain, two in foreground together on the right side, the third one above them toward the centre. 
Copyright proprietor: Rungius, Carl, Brooklyn, N.Y.
ClassI, XXc, no. 16768, Jan. 20, 1906.

Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-257.
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1913
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1909
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1915
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1905
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