Steven Stern Fine Arts · Los Angeles
We buy Carl Rungius paintings
Do you own a painting by Carl Rungius (1869–1959), or are you handling an estate that includes one? Steven Stern Fine Arts would be glad to look at it. The appraisal is free, inquiries are confidential, and we will explain the choices for selling or consigning before you decide anything.
Wondering what it might be worth? See how Rungius paintings are valued.
Why owners call us
A Western art specialist for your Rungius
Familiar with his work
The gallery handles Western American and wildlife paintings and has sold Rungius's own work, including a 1916 oil of a bull moose at a pond.
Free, confidential appraisal
Families and collectors who own a Rungius can write to us in confidence, and the appraisal is free. Owner and buyer names are never made public.
Purchase, consignment or private sale
A Rungius can be bought by the gallery, consigned, or placed privately, depending on what suits the picture and its owner.
The process
How a Carl Rungius sale works
Send photographs
The front, the whole reverse and the signature, plus any title, date, place name or exhibition label on the back.
Confidential review
We consider subject, period, size, support, condition and history, and whether it is a finished painting or an oil sketch.
Choose a route
We set out purchase, consignment and private placement for your Rungius; the decision is yours.
Viewing
For a major Rungius canvas or a group of works, the gallery can see it in person.
Recent placements
Carl Rungius painting we have sold
At the Pond
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Who collects Carl Rungius?
Rungius is collected by several overlapping audiences. Collectors of Western American art value his paintings of Wyoming and the Canadian Rockies, where he painted every summer for decades from his Banff studio. Collectors of wildlife and sporting art regard him as the leading North American big-game painter of his era: moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, caribou and grizzly bears, shown in the country where they lived. Many of his paintings were bought by hunters and conservationists, and by collectors in both the United States and Canada.
He worked from small oil sketches on board to large exhibition canvases, and he also made drawings, etchings and illustrations. Because his output is so varied, the right way to sell depends on the specific picture. Our past sales page and the biography give more background.