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Alternate Title(s)
  • Alert, Bull Moose
  • Coming to the Call
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1905
MediumBronze
Dimensionsimage: 17 x 20 x 9 in. (43.2 x 50.8 x 22.9 cm)
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0010
ClassificationsSculpture
Subject
Categorywildlife
Description"A bronze of a bull moose 16 1/2 inch in height. The bull is swinging around with whole body and head to the right, the bell swinging to the left," from 1905 copyright registration long form (Class I: Works of Art).
One moose depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Alert. A bronze of a bull moose 16 1/2 inch in height. The bull is swinging around with whole body and head to the right.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), New York, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 15138, August 10, 1905. 

Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-253.

Cast illustrated in Majesty and Wilderness and American Western Art in the Collection of Robert F. Rockwell of the Rockwell Museum. 
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