Skip to main contentDescriptionThree bighorn sheep stand on the side of a rocky mountain which slopes down to the left. The sheep to the right is in shadow and has its back facing the viewer while the other two sheep are illuminated by the sun and look towards the viewer. Mountains brightened by the sun are in the background. Some grass and other plants grow out of the cracks in the rocks.Curatorial Remarks
Arthur H. Harlow Gallery & Co, Inc. label on stretcher - painting titled "Mount Athabasca"
Wanderers Above the Timberline
Alternate Title(s)
- Mount Athabasca
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Datec. 1925
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
frame: 36 1/2 × 46 1/2 in. (92.7 × 118.1 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.114
ClassificationsPainting
Signed?
1
Inscribed?
1
Inscribed?
1
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on viewPhotograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-273. Glenbow cataloguer has added, "NMWA 987 114 / Wanderers Above Timberline."
First Rungius painting purchased by Bill and Joffa Kerr, whose collection would become the core of the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
Exhibitions
Carl Rungius
finished work/study