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Caribou in the Mountains (Osborne's Caribou)
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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
Signed? 1
Categorywildlife
On View
On view
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.Curatorial Remarks
Titled Caribou when at the Shelburne Museum and Caribou in the Mountains with Sotheby's in 1996. Shelburne Museum accession no. 1960-376.30.
Rungius made an etching based on this painting, Osborne's Caribou, in November, 1925.
Image in Crouch 1989 is from an archival photograph of the painting, Glenbow Archives, Calgary PA-1875-60. 
CR format for provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. William N Beach; to Shelburne Museum, by gift, 1960; to (Sotheby's, New York, sold to support the collections care endowment and acquisition fund of the Shelburne Museum), December 5, 1996; to Bill Kerr, 1996; to present owner.
Drypoint featured on flat (unfolded) Rungius Christmas card, 1939 or earlier, "Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year / Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rungius"
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