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The Mountaineers
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The Mountaineers

Alternate Title(s)
  • The Mountaineers: Bighorn Sheep on Wilcox Pass, Canadian Rockies
  • The Mountaineers -- Big Horn Sheep on Wilcox Pass
  • Mountain Sheep
Artist/Maker Carl Rungius United States, born Germany, 1869 - 1959
Date1912
MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensionsimage: 60 x 75 in. (152.4 x 190.5 cm)
Credit LineBuffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Whitney Museum of Western Art, Gift of Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. 16.93.1
Object numberCC.0088
ClassificationsPainting
Signed? 1
Inscribed? 1
Categorywildlife
ProvenanceThe artist; to Emerson McMillin; to New York Zoological Society, 1912; to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller; to Jackson Hole Preserve; to Buffalo Bill Center of the West, by gift, 1993
Illustration
Gallery of Wild Animal Paintings in the Zoological Park from the Collection of the New York Zoological Society. New York: New York Zoological Society (Charles Francis Press), 1930. n.p.
Description"Rams coming forward in single file, peaks behind," from 1912 copyright registration form (Class G: Works of Art).
Four bighorn sheep depicted.
Curatorial Remarks
Copyright title/description: The Mountaineers. Rams coming forward in single file, peaks behind.
Copyright proprietor: Rungius (Carl), Brooklyn, N.Y.
Class G, XXc. no. 40922, May 22, 1912. 
Copyright registration card at Glenbow:
The Mountaineers. Rams coming forward in single file, peaks behind. By Carl Rungius.
May 22, 1912, Class G, XXc., No. 40922 

Back of photograph from Rungius Studio Collection at Glenbow reads, "11974" and is stamped "New York Zoological Society Photo / The Zoological Park," PA-1875-335. "The Mountaineers" in written in another hand.  
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