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The Lord of the Cañon

Alternate Title(s)
  • Lord of the Canyon
  • Lord of the Cañon
  • The Challenge
  • Elk
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1906
MediumOil on Canvas
DimensionsUnknown
Credit LineLocation Unknown
Object numberCC.0021
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
Description
"The Lord of the Cañon. Mountain landscape, full sunlight. A bull elk standing in foreground between some rocks. A bunch of cows on the right side of picture bull and cows watching another bull approaching from the right," from 1906 copyright registration long form (Class I: Works of Art).
Six elk depicted.
Bibliography
NMWA
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1909
Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
ADH
Carl Rungius
1906
ADH
Carl Rungius
1908
ADH
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Challenged
Carl Rungius
1937