Skip to main contentDescription"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
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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
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to Emerson McMillin, 1911; to New York Zoological Society, by gift, 1911 (renamed Wildlife Conservation Society, 1993).
IllustrationGallery 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.
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.
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.
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