Carl Rungius (1869-1959)

"Carl Rungius was the greatest wildlife painter of the western wilderness. There was no other artist who studied the animals and landscape so closely, or who painted them with a greater degree of skill and understanding." (R. Stewart, The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier, Dallas, Texas, 1986, p. 106) The present work is a highly finished field study that captures the expertise and un-rivaled skill with which Rungius was able to capture the pose, expression and accuracy of texture and musculature of his subjects.