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Heron Sketch
Heron Sketch

Heron Sketch

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Mediumgouache on paper
Dimensionsimage: 10 x 10 3/8 in. (25.4 x 26.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Michael Frost, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2020.018
ClassificationsPainting
Signed upper left, C Rungius
Subject
Categorywildlife
Signedsignature top left
ProvenanceMichael Frost (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York; to National Museum of Wildlife Art by gift, 2020.
On View
Not on view
DescriptionSide portrait of one heron facing left. Could be a zoo study, from the Berlin Zoo or the New York Zoological Society. Could also be a study of a heron shot nearly anywhere Rungius traveled.