2022 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 74240 / 321  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Carl Rungius (1869 – 1959)
Bear in a Stream
oil on canvas
25 × 30 inches
signed lower right

In Carl Rungius, Artist and Sportsman, Robert Stacey wrote, “By the 1930s, Rungius’s work coalesced into a mature signature style that was vastly different from anything that had been seen in American wildlife art. True to his own calling, but shaped by the forces of modern art around him, Rungius extended himself and American wildlife art by reducing anatomical and topographical details to strokes of color and blocks of form and mass. His impressionistic plein-air paintings were perfectly suited to North American big game and the environment of the Canadian Rockies.”

PROVENANCE
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2017
Private collection, Nevada

74

Carl Rungius

1869 – 1959

Bear in a Stream
oil on canvas
25 × 30 inches
signed lower right
Sold at Auction: $72,600
Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. Faint bar mark along the left side. No signs of restoration.

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