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Rainy Day
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Rainy Day

Alternate Title(s)
  • Preliminaries
  • Moose on a Ridge
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1908
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 26 x 38 in. (66 x 96.5 cm)
Credit LineLast known with Copley Fine Art Auctions, Hingham, Massachusetts, 2012
Object numberCC.0055
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Inscribed? 1
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenancePrivate Collection, Virginia, by descent in the family; (Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts), July 12, 2012
Description"A Rainy Day. A bull and cow Moose on a side hill, bull in middle of foreground foreshortened into the picture, cow broadside, legs covered by hill. Both looking intently to the left. Two trees behind moose; timber in background," from 1908 copyright registration long form (Class I: Works of Art).
Two moose depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Rainy day. Bull and cow moose on a hillside, clouds hanging over distant hill.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 24820, Mar. 17, 1908.
"A Rainy Day. A bull and cow Moose on a side hill, bull in middle of foreground foreshortened into the picture, cow broadside, legs covered by hill. Both looking intently to the left. Two trees behind moose; timber in background. [Etc.] Photograph on file." From copyright registration long form, March 17, 1908,  Class I. XXc. No. 24820.

 Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-146A.
Bibliography
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy Christie's Private Sales
Carl Rungius
1907
ADH
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1908
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1907
Sotheby's 1982 catalogue
Carl Rungius
1907