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One bull moose depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Stamped on inside of three stretcher members, "Mfr'd by BIBLENBERG & CO., New York & Chicago"
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Going to his Doom
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1910
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 29 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (75 x 115.6 cm)
Credit LineSagamore Hill National Historic Site/NPS
Object numberCC.0072
ClassificationsPainting
Signed?
1
Inscribed?
1
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to Theodore Roosevelt, in exchange for "In the Forest" (CC.0089), 1913; by descent through family; to National Park Service, Sagamore Hill Historic Site.
Description"Going to his Doom." Front view of large moose in foreground. Forest in background," from 1910 copyright registration card (Class G: Works of Art).One bull moose depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Going to his Doom. [Large bull moose traveling over frozen ground.]
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, XXc. no. 32813, Mar. 15, 1910.
Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-220. Glenbow cataloguer wrote, "On the Portage? (c) March 15, 1910."
On the Portage is CC.0073
On the Portage is CC.0073
Stamped on inside of three stretcher members, "Mfr'd by BIBLENBERG & CO., New York & Chicago"
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