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Century-Old Rungius Painting Is Wildlife Highlight At Coeur d'Alene

Results of Annual Summer Art Showcase Being Watched On Both Sides of Atlantic

Mike Overby, one of the amiable and astute architects of the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction , refers to Bull Elk In The High Country as a fresh Carl Rungius painting.  Rungius has been dead for half of a century as of this year, and the oil painting above was completed sometime around 1910.

What Overby means by his reference is that the work has been out of circulation for a long, long time.  Shortly after it was commissioned, the painting remained with the same family for 80 years and now is seeing public light, giving Rungius fans a

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