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Wanderers of the North
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Wanderers of the North

Alternate Title(s)
  • Caribou on Winter Range
  • Herd of Caribou Crossing Mountain
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1908
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Credit LineLast known with Christie's, Los Angeles, 1999
Object numberCC.0056
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Subject
Categorywildlife
Provenance(Kennedy Galleries, New York), by 1968; to private collection, by 1975; (J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York); Daniel M. Galbreath; to Daniel M. Galbreath Estate, 1995; to (Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Hayden, Idaho), July 27, 1996; (Christie's, Los Angeles), April 29, 1999
Description"Bunch of caribou, the cows ahead, the buck following, going down into a valley," from 1908 copyright registration form (Class I: Works of Art).
A herd of eight caribou in a snowy landscape, descend a mountain slope walking left to right.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: Wanderers of the north. Bunch of caribou, the cows ahead, the buck following, going down into a valley.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class I, XXc, no. 25239, Apr. 20, 1908. 
Bibliography
Exhibitions
Courtesy Sotheby's Auction House
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
Hopkins Family Archival Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Carl Rungius
1907
ADH
Carl Rungius
1908
Courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
Carl Rungius
1926
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1907
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Carl Rungius
1906
NMWA
Carl Rungius
1906
Courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Carl Rungius
1907