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One caribou depicted.Curatorial Remarks
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Woodland Stag
Alternate Title(s)
- A Woodland Stag
- Woodland Caribou
- A Woodland Caribou Stag
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1906
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 x 46 in. (76.2 x 116.8 cm)
frame: 42 x 58 in. (106.7 x 147.3 cm)
Credit LineDuquesne Club, Pittsburgh
Object numberCC.0026
ClassificationsPainting
Signed?
1
Inscribed?
1
Subject
Region
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to John W. Phillips, 1907; gift of W. Harry Brown, E.J. Taylor, John M. Phillips to the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, by 1907.
Description"A bull caribou standing alert in foreground among heavy low bushes in red fall color. A few high spruce trees in middle distance timber behind visible through mist," from 1906 copyright registration form (Class I: Works of Art).One caribou depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Woodland stag. A bull caribou standing alert in foreground among heavy low bushes in red fall color. A few high spruce trees in middle distance timber behind visible through mist.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 20335, Dec. 22, 1906.
In The Mentor (August 15, 1916), p.7: "The gravure shown herewith is a very fine presentation of the Canadian Woodland species from an oil painting by Carl Rungius, now owned by the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh.”
In The Mentor (August 15, 1916), p.7: "The gravure shown herewith is a very fine presentation of the Canadian Woodland species from an oil painting by Carl Rungius, now owned by the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh.”
Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow has multiple lines, by different hands. First hand reads, "A Woodland Stag. Caribou New Brunswick / Owned by Duquesne Club in Pittsburg." Second hand reads, "page 5 / A Woodland Stag" - Copyright by Carl Rungius [double underlined] / (Owned by Duquesne Club, Pittsburg) Return to C. Rungius / 23-3 West 42d / 3 7/8 x 2 3/8 / 4275-1-10 / insert / 1/22-/20" Also the number "3" crossed out and number "5" written in in rough pencil, PA-1875-82-A / (Photo of painting) / (dupl). Presumably these are notes for an insert in a newspaper/magazine, perhaps The Index, listed above. See image attached.
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