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A Knight Errant
Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art

A Knight Errant

Alternate Title(s)
  • Knight-Errant
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Datec. 1931
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm) frame: 35 1/2 × 45 1/2 in. (90.2 × 115.6 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1987.103
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Categorywildlife
On View
Not on view
DescriptionWinter and bull moose. Snow covers the ground and trees as well as the mountains in the distance. Clear blue sky. One bull moose standing on the right side looking towards the left. Photo in Glenbow archives from 1930, Jasper setting. Very similar to Rocky Mountain Moose printed in "In the Shadow of Mt McKinley" 1931, William N. Beach.Curatorial Remarks
Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "Presented to Louis Betts," PA-1875-186. 
Louis Betts painted Rungius's portrait for the National Academy of Design.

Exhibitions
Untitled-- Moose
Untitled-- Moose
Francis Lee Jaques
Morning Mist
Morning Mist
Carl Rungius
1925
Mountains at Lake O'Hara
Mountains at Lake O'Hara
Carl Rungius
Sketch for Mountain Moose
Sketch for Mountain Moose
Carl Rungius
1935
Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art
On Storm Swept Heights
Carl Rungius
c. 1938
Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art
Moose in Mountain Landscape
Carl Rungius
1948
Courtesy Jackson Hole Art Auction
A Knight Errant
Carl Rungius
1910
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In Fighting Mood
Carl Rungius
1910
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Rivals
Carl Rungius
1908
Mountain Scene
Mountain Scene
Carl Rungius
Moose on Head of Ram River
Moose on Head of Ram River
Carl Rungius
c. 1940
NMWA
Lake O'Hara
Carl Rungius
c. 1925