Past sales
Carl Rungius painting sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
One painting by Carl Rungius is recorded as sold in the gallery's inventory: At the Pond, a 1916 oil on board of a bull moose standing in shallow water. It is shown as a record of a past sale only; it is not for sale.
The painting
At the Pond
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Details are as catalogued by the gallery.
About this work
At the Pond shows a bull moose standing in a shallow pond, his antlers catching the light, with a stand of spruce behind him and a stream running out of the foreground over a tangle of fallen branches. It is signed lower right, dated 1916 in the gallery's records, and measures 12 by 16 inches, oil on board.
The moose was one of Rungius's favorite subjects from his first visit to North America in 1894, when he came to hunt moose in Maine. The painting dates from the decade between his first trip to the Canadian Rockies in 1910 and the building of his Banff studio in 1921, and its quick, broken brushwork is typical of his smaller pictures on board.
What this record tells an owner
This sale is not a price guide, and each Rungius is judged on its own subject, size, condition and history. His large canvases of bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzlies in the Canadian Rockies, his Wyoming and Yukon pictures and his illustrations are also important parts of his output, and none of them appears here.
If you own a Rungius, read what determines a Carl Rungius painting's value, see the biography for the main dates and places of his career, or send photographs through the seller inquiry.