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Elkland
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Elkland

Alternate Title(s)
  • Male Olympian Elk
  • Male Olympian Elk: Calling to the Herd
  • Male Olympian Elk Calling the Herd
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1907
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Credit LineLast known with Sotheby's, New York, 1999
Object numberCC.0038
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Inscribed? 1
Categorywildlife
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York); (Sotheby's, New York), May 27, 1999
Description"Mountain valley, the evening sun striking the back of it, a bull elk going bugling down hill toward a bunch of elk," from 1907 copyright registration form (Class I: Works of Art).
"Elkland. A mountain valley, the evening sun striking the back of it. A bull elk going bugling down hill toward a bunch of elks visible on a meadow. Two large trees behind elk in foreground," from 1907 copyright registration long form (Class I: Works of Art).
Eight or more elk depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Elkland. Mountain valley, the evening sun striking the back of it, a bull elk going bugling down hill toward a bunch of elks.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 21619, Apr. 23, 1907. 
"Elkland. A mountain valley, the evening sun striking the back of it. A bull elk going bugling down hill toward a bunch of elks visible on a meadow. Two large trees behind elk in foreground. [etc.] (Photograph on file.)" From copyright long form, April 23, 1907, Class I. XXc. No. 21619. 
Bibliography
Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy of the March in Montana Art Auction
Carl Rungius
1909
ADH
Carl Rungius
1908
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1907
NMWA
Carl Rungius
1906
ADH
Carl Rungius
1906
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of Christie's
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1909