Skip to main contentDescriptionOne bobcat standing on a large branch facing left. Rocks surround him and trees can be seen in the distance. From the New York Zoological Society collection.Curatorial Remarks
Bay Lynx
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1931
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsi 30 x 40, f 34 1/2 x 44
Credit LineCourtesy of the Widener Charitable Limited Partnership, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1999.140
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius.
Categorywildlife
SignedSigned
InscribedLower right hand corner C. Rungius
On View
Not on viewBack of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "Zoo," PA-1875-328.
“During the year the paintings in the Society’s Art Galleries were increased by the addition of a large painting of the Townsend fur seal and two smaller paintings of the Canada Lynx and the Bay Lynx, all by Carl Rungius.” (36th Annual Report of the NYZS, for the year 1931, p. 26, published January 1932).
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