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In Fighting Mood
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In Fighting Mood

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1910
MediumOil on Canvas
DimensionsUnknown
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0076
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Inscribed? 1
Subject
Categorywildlife
Description"Moonlight landscape, large moose in angry attitude in foreground," from 1910 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).
Glenbow copyright registration card description:
"In Fighting Mood. By Carl Rungius. Moon light scene, full figure of bull moose in foreground, back to spectator. Tree torn up by the root in right foreground," from 1910 copyright registration card (Class G: Works of Art.)
One moose depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: In Fighting Mood. [Moonlight landscape, large moose (Moon-light) in angry attitude in foreground.]
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, XXc. no. 34802, Jul. 23, 1910. 
"In Fighting Mood." From copyright long form, September 5, 1907, Class H. XXc. No. 99062.
Copyright registration card at Glenbow:
In Fighting Mood. By Carl Rungius. Moon light scene, full figure of bull moose in foreground, back to spectator. Tree torn up by the root in right foreground.
July 23, 1910, Class G, XXc., No. 34802.

 Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow stamped, "Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress," PA-1875-248. Glenbow cataloguer, likely Ewa Smithwick, has written, "1908 Head," referring to a trophy moose Rungius shot in 1908. 

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