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One caribou depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Alert
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1907
MediumOil on Canvas
DimensionsUnknown
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0046
ClassificationsPainting
Signed?
1
Subject
Categorywildlife
Description"Alert. A bull caribou in foreground looking intently ahead, tail tipped. Bunch of trees behind caribou, white birch tree in center of bunch. Big rock on left side of picture," from 1907 copyright registration long form (Class I: Works of Art).One caribou depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Alert. Bull caribou looking silently ahead.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 24082, Dec. 23, 1907.
"Alert. A bull caribou in foreground looking intently ahead, tail tipped. Bunch of trees behind caribou, white birch tree in center of bunch. Big rock on left side of picture. Photograph on file." From copyright registration long form, December 23, 1907, Class I. XXc. No. 24082.
"Alert. A bull caribou in foreground looking intently ahead, tail tipped. Bunch of trees behind caribou, white birch tree in center of bunch. Big rock on left side of picture. Photograph on file." From copyright registration long form, December 23, 1907, Class I. XXc. No. 24082.
May be initial version of CC.0067, Woodland Stag, Rockwell Museum, or a very similar, earlier painting.