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Quantrell Moose
Quantrell Moose

Quantrell Moose

Alternate Title(s)
  • Quantrell's Moose Triptych, New Brunswick
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1924
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 × 60 in. (71.1 × 152.4 cm) frame: 31 3/4 × 71 7/8 in. (80.6 × 182.6 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM1991.019
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Inscribed? 1
Categorywildlife
On View
On view
DescriptionOne moose stands on the left side of a river looking across the river to the right. Rocks, trees and bushes line the banks. A green hill can be seen in the distance. Summer time image. Ernest Quantrell commissioned Rungius to create this painting of a moose looking across a lake to their cabin in Ontario. triptych.Curatorial Remarks
Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "Painted for Ernest Quantrell / for mantel, new home Scarsdale / center of tryptich - others landscape / landscape Ontario / Quantrell cabin across lake, left," PA-1875-225. site of cabin just cropped out here, to the right.
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