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Deadlocked
Courtesy of the Shelburne Museum

Deadlocked

Alternate Title(s)
  • Caribou's Death Struggle
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1908
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 30 3/4 x 46 3/4 in. (78.1 x 118.7 cm)
Credit LineShelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. Gift of the Sheldon Family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sheldon 1966-194.1
Object numberCC.0053
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Charles Sheldon; to Sheldon Family, by descent; to Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, by gift
Description"Two caribou the horns locked, one dead the other standing over it," from 1908 copyright registration form (Class I: Works of Art).
Three coyotes or wolves in the distance.Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Deadlocked. Two caribou the horns locked, one dead the other standing over it.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 24821, Mar. 17, 1908. 
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