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Rocky Mountain Encounter (Master of the Trail)

Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1904
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm) frame: 26 3/4 × 34 3/4 in. (67.9 × 88.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Widener Limited Charitable Partnership, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1998.110
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
Signedsigned lower right
DescriptionMountain Sheep encounters mountain lion on trail, more sheep behind. Reproduced in William Hornaday, The American Natural History, 1904, and in Outing Magazine, c. 1904, as "Master of the Trail." Three or four mountain sheep and one mountain lion total.
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