Artist Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius
Title Above the Canyon
Media oil on canvas board
Dated
1950
Size 9 x 11 in. / 22.9 x 27.9 cm.
Frame Size 13.5 x 15.5 x 1.5 in.
Sold $8,500
Estimate $9,000 - $12,000
Notes
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated and inscribed 'to Dorothy Hutchinson with best wishes in memory of our Peace River trip. August 22, 1950' on label verso; framed
Provenance
ex-collection Gilda Van Norman estate; purchased from John R. Howard Fine Art, Montana; private collection, Calgary
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;
Carl Rungius: The Complete Prints, by D.Crouch, Mountain Press, 1989;
Carl Rungius, Artist and Sportsman, by K.Evendon, Warwick Pub., 2001
biography and other examples in
N.G.C. - Vol.II: Modern European Schools, by R.Hubbard, pg.171;
Dict. of American Painters, by M.Fielding, pg.311; Benezit, Tome 9, pg.185