American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture including Property from The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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Lot 222
  • 222

Carl Rungius 1869-1959

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Description

  • Carl Rungius
  • Patriarch of the Herd
  • signed C. Rungius, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 by 20 in.
  • (40.6 by 50.8 cm)
  • Painted in 1915.

Provenance

Mr. Madison Grant, 1915 (acquired directly from the artist) 

Catalogue Note

A photograph affixed to the backing states: Rangifer Granti; Alaska Pen/Named in honor of Madison Grant Esq. Chair of  the zoological Society Antlers of Bull in/ Reed McMillin Collection/ Painted for Mr. Madison Grant/ by Carl Rungius 1915.