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The Mountaineers

Alternate Title(s)
  • The Mountaineers: Bighorn Sheep on Wilcox Pass, Canadian Rockies
  • The Mountaineers -- Big Horn Sheep on Wilcox Pass
  • Mountain Sheep
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1912
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 60 x 75 in. (152.4 x 190.5 cm)
Credit LineBuffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Whitney Museum of Western Art, Gift of Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. 16.93.1
Object numberCC.0088
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
Description"Rams coming forward in single file, peaks behind," from 1912 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).
Four bighorn sheep depicted.
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