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Three bighorn sheep depicted.
AthabascaCuratorial Remarks
Near Mount Athabaska (Athabasca)
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1913
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 40 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. (101.9 x 81.6 cm)
Credit LineBuffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Whitney Museum of Western Art, Gift of Frank H. Goodyear. 4.90
Object numberCC.0091
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York), by 1965; [to] Frank H. Goodyear, 1965; to Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, 1990
DescriptionThree rams; two together in foreground, one following. Snow-clad mountain behind, top in clouds," from 1913 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).Three bighorn sheep depicted.
AthabascaCuratorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Near Mount Athabaska. Three rams; two together in foreground, one following. Snowclad mountain behind, top in clouds.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, Xxc. no. 44285, Jul. 29, 1913.
Athabasca
Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "at Mt. Athabasca," PA-1875-267.
Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "at Mt. Athabasca," PA-1875-267.