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Lot #308

Artist Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius
Title Untitled - Cascade Mountain
Media oil on canvas
Dated 1920 -'s
Size 16.25 x 20.25 in. / 41.3 x 51.4 cm.
Frame Size 22.25 x 26.25 x 3 in.

Notes
signed lower right; in period frame

Provenance
purchased from Canada House Gallery, Banff; from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder, a prominent Calgary philanthropist; proceeds from this work will help fulfill Joan's wishes to support the University of Calgary. To read more about Dr. Joan Snyder, visit the University of Calgary's Memoriam

Sold $32,175 Estimate $30,000/$50,000

Biographical Information
Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius ~ [1869-1959] American NA
see Carl Rungius, Big Game Painter: Fifty Years with Brush and Rifle, by W. J. Schaldach, Sporting Classics, 1945 [reprinted 1991]; Carl Rungius: Painter of the Western Wilderness, by J.Whyte/E.J.Hart, Glenbow Museum, 1985 and Carl Rungius: The Complete Prints, by D.Crouch, Mountain Press, 1989; Carl Rungius, Artist and Sportsman, by K.Evendon, Warwick Pub., 2001; N.G.C. - Vol.II: Modern European Schools, by R.Hubbard, pg.171; biography in Dict. of American Painters, by M.Fielding, pg.311; Benezit, Tome 9, pg.185

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