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Caribou in the Mountains (Osborne's Caribou)

Alternate Title(s)
  • Caribou
  • Caribou in the Mountains
  • Osborn Caribou
  • Osborne's Caribou
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Datec. 1925
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 32 × 46 in. (81.3 × 116.8 cm) frame: 42 3/4 × 58 1/4 in. (108.6 × 148 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberJL1996.083
ClassificationsPainting
Categorywildlife
DescriptionA group of six caribou stand on a snowy hillside looking to the left. Clear blue sky stretches back to rocky mountain peaks. See drypoint "Osborne's Caribou". Also reproduced in William Hornaday's Wild Animal Round-up, 1925. Formerly at the Shelburne Museum.
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