Skip to main contentDescriptionOne man in blue military shirt with yellow scarf wearing cowboy hat on one brown horse facing the viewer. The horse facing right in the open field. Blue sky with a few white clouds. Cavalry officer. One man, one horse depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Old Blue Shirt
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1915
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 14 × 12 in. (35.6 × 30.5 cm)
frame: 20 5/8 × 18 1/2 in. (52.4 × 47 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1997.037
ClassificationsPainting
Signed
lower right,
C. Rungius.
Categoryhuman/domestic
Signedsigned lower right
On View
Not on viewThe Old Blue Shirt poem by Lt. Col. J.J. Boniface.
Breakout the faded old blue shirt,
We'll wear it once again;
It's faded with wind and sunshine, and
Full of western stain;
It smells of smoky camp fires that
Gleamed where the sage brush grows,
'Twas born in "The days of the Empire," ....
Breakout the faded old blue shirt,
We'll wear it once again;
It's faded with wind and sunshine, and
Full of western stain;
It smells of smoky camp fires that
Gleamed where the sage brush grows,
'Twas born in "The days of the Empire," ....
Harold Von Schmidt