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Rocky Mountain Encounter (Master of the Trail)
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
(United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959)
Date1904
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
frame: 26 3/4 × 34 3/4 in. (67.9 × 88.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineThe Widener Limited Charitable Partnership, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Terms
Object numberW1998.110
DescriptionMountain Sheep encounters mountain lion on trail, more sheep behind. Reproduced in William Hornaday, The American Natural History, 1904, and in Outing Magazine, c. 1904, as "Master of the Trail." Three or four mountain sheep and one mountain lion total.Status
Not on viewRobert Lougheed
Ernest Thompson Seton
Robert F. Kuhn