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Curiosity
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Curiosity

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1906
MediumOil on Canvas
DimensionsUnknown
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0025
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Categorywildlife
Description"A sage covered hill side. A buck antelope on right foreground looking intently ahead. Behind him a bunch of does," from 1906 copyright registration form (Class I: Works of Art).
"Curiosity. A sage covered hill side. A buck antelope in foreground on the rifht side of picture, looking intently straight ahead Behind him in the middle of picture, a bunch of does, looking in the same direction. Light from behind and above," from copyright long form, October 13, 1906, Class I. XXc. No. 19552.
Five or six antelope depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Curiosity. A sage covered hill side. A buck antelope on right foreground looking intently ahead. Behind him a bunch of does.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 19552, Oct. 13, 1906. 

Photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow, PA-1875-314. Glenbow cataloguer has added, "1902?" Date on this record based on copyright filing, also has later signature, with slash, not swirl, indicating a post 1906 work. 
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