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An Old Prospector
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An Old Prospector

Alternate Title(s)
  • An Old Prospector, Grizzly Bear in the Canadian Rockies, Alberta
  • Rocky Mountain Grizzly at Home
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1910
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
Credit LineWildlife Conservation Society (formerly New York Zoological Society)
Object numberCC.0085
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Inscribed? 1
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to Emerson McMillin, 1911; to New York Zoological Society, by gift, 1911 (renamed Wildlife Conservation Society, 1993).
Illustration
Gallery of Wild Animal Paintings in the Zoological Park from the Collection of the New York Zoological Society. New York: New York Zoological Society (Charles Francis Press), 1930, np, no. 15.
Description"A grizzly bear facing right, walking, head down. Glacier behind, tops lighted by evening sun," from 1911 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).
One bear depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: An Old Prospector. A Grizzly-bear walking, head down. Glacier behind, tops lighted by evening sun.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, XXc. no. 39246, Dec. 22, 1911.
See also CC.0769, An Old Prospector - later version.  
From copyright registration card at Glenbow:
An Old Prospector. A grizzly bear walking head down. Glacier behind, with heights lighted by evening sun.
Dec. 22, 1911, Class G, XXc., No. 39246. 

Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "1911," in later hand (not original cataloguer), PA-1875-24. 
Bibliography
Exhibitions
Sheldon, 1911 (Courtesy Hathi Trust)
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy Glenbow Museum
Carl Rungius
1911
Courtesy Sotheby's Auction House
Carl Rungius
1907
ADH
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1911
ADH
Carl Rungius
1911
Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1911
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1911
Mason, 1969
Carl Rungius
1910
Courtesy of the March in Montana Art Auction
Carl Rungius
1909