Animal drawings can really be so bad. The colors usually don’t reflect the feeling you get from real color in nature — a certain magnificence and vibration. And when it’s too realistic it actually just drains the life out of it. You can tell that Carl Rungius didn’t just SEE wilderness — he knew it and felt it.
This scarce 1985 first-edition hardcover monograph is the definitive retrospective on North America's most celebrated wildlife master. Spanning 184 pages it documents Rungius' life journey from Germany to the rugged Canadian Rockies and American West. It is generously illustrated with full-color plates and detailed black-and-white field sketches.
Condition: very good vintage condition. the interior pages are clean, crisp, and tightly bound with no loose pages or writing. the original illustrated dust jacket is present, showing light shelf wear, minor rubbing, and slight crinkling along the top and bottom edges consistent with age, but it remains bright and completely intact.
Animal drawings can really be so bad. The colors usually don’t reflect the feeling you get from real color in nature — a certain magnificence and vibration. And when it’s too realistic it actually just drains the life out of it. You can tell that Carl Rungius didn’t just SEE wilderness — he knew it and felt it.
This scarce 1985 first-edition hardcover monograph is the definitive retrospective on North America's most celebrated wildlife master. Spanning 184 pages it documents Rungius' life journey from Germany to the rugged Canadian Rockies and American West. It is generously illustrated with full-color plates and detailed black-and-white field sketches.
Condition: very good vintage condition. the interior pages are clean, crisp, and tightly bound with no loose pages or writing. the original illustrated dust jacket is present, showing light shelf wear, minor rubbing, and slight crinkling along the top and bottom edges consistent with age, but it remains bright and completely intact.
