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Stag
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Stag

Alternate Title(s)
  • Stagg [sic]
  • Bull Elk in the High Country
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1905
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 29 x 46 1/4 in. (73.7 x 117.5 cm)
Credit LineAmerican Museum of Western Art, Anschutz Collection
Object numberCC.0009
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceNorman James, Baltimore; Ruly Carpenter Family, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno), July 25, 2009; to Private collection, 2009; to (Sotheby's), November 16, 2018; to American Museum of Western Art, Anschutz Collection, 2018
Description"Stag," from 1905 copyright form (Class H: Photographs).
One elk depicted.
Bull elk stands in three-quarter view facing towards the foreground. Downed timber and rocks behind him, pine trees beyond and rocky mountainside behind.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Stag
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y. 
Class H, XXc, no. 62436, June 19, 1905. 
Letter from relative indicates Norman James sold painting during depression. 
Bibliography
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1926
Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Carl Rungius
1907
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1907
ADH
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Duquesne Club
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy Jackson Hole Art Auction
Carl Rungius
1910
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1911