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One bear depicted.Curatorial RemarksBibliography
In the Ogilvie Mountains
Alternate Title(s)
- An OId Prospector
- Bear in the Mountains
Artist/Maker
Carl Rungius
United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1911
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 23 13/16 x 32 in. (60.5 x 81.3 cm)
Credit LineWorrell Collection
Object numberCC.0082
ClassificationsPainting
Signed?
1
Inscribed?
1
Subject
Categorywildlife
ProvenancePrivate Collection; to (Christie's, New York), May 26, 1993; to Worrell Collection
Description"Gloomy mountain landscape, Grizzly in middle distance, nosing among some rocks," from 1911 copyright registration form, (Class G: Works of Art).One bear depicted.Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: In the Ogilvie Mountains. Gloomy mountain landscape, Grizzly in middle distance, nosing among some rocks.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, XXc. no. 38236, Jul. 29, 1911.
Copyright registration card at Glenbow:
In the Ogilvie Mountains. Gloomy mountain landscape, with a grizzly bear in middle distance, moving among rocks. By Carl Rungius.
July 29, 1911, Class G, XXc., No. 38236
If this painting is set in the Ogilvie Mountains, then the inspiration for it came from Rungius's trip to the Yukon in 1904. It is copyrighted 1911, but could be earlier.
Copyright registration card at Glenbow:
In the Ogilvie Mountains. Gloomy mountain landscape, with a grizzly bear in middle distance, moving among rocks. By Carl Rungius.
July 29, 1911, Class G, XXc., No. 38236
A black and white image of this painting is reproduced in Whyte and Hart. There is no mention of the source of the image and it might be a black and white photo from the Glenbow archives. The authors mention that Rungius painted the scene after his 1910 trip to the Canadian Rockies and it symbolized three new elements in his career: it is his first major painting featuring alpine tundra landscape; it is his first painting where the landscape vies with wildlife for importance; and it is among his earliest paintings of a non-ungulate in a wild setting. They were probably referring to cc.0085.