This guy.
One of his greatest:
UPDATE: Walter Hingley fills in some history. "Note the Rungius letter is to Walter Joseph Wilwerding (1891 - 1966) who illustrated for the big three. I believe he did a lot of the Annabel articles for Sports Afield which might mean the book was Wilwerding's or maybe even Annabel's...
He has had this book for forty years:
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THAT is amazing! As was Rungius...
Buried treasure!
Rungius was spectacular. Known for his "moose butt" paintings. What a gem of a find!
Score!
That's the kind of stuff that keeps me haunting dusty old bookshops that make me sneeze and thriftshops that reek of despair. Mostly mine...
Steve, I saw an exhibit once of Rungius and it was great work. Similarly, a few years ago I was driving in northern Minnesota through Aitkin, town on the edge of the southern rim of the iron range and found a museum in an old Carnegie Library devoted to F L Jacques and his wife, F L grew up there and it was stupendous, to grow hyperbolic, examples of F L way of drawing on site and coding the colors with a number system. "Paint by numbers" Lilia remarked and not derisively. Oddly Jacques industrial paintings of Duluth stole the show. Randy Davis
Although I MUST have seen Rungius illustrations hereabout(maybe I have some buried in an old wildlife/hunting book in my library?), I USED to have that "Cats In Action"--used it all the time when I used to draw and paint animals myself--I used to sell the paintings for a dollar apiece(and apparently people thought they were at least worth that--I sold a LOT! Everybody can afford a dollar!) when I was starving on the reservation(college), and after selling 3, I could go and get a good meal somewhere! Big cats sold better than ANYTHING, so I did a lot of big cats. And dammit, I lent that book to someone(an art teacher, actually) who never returned it. Dammit. But then, once I broke reservation(graduated) and had to start walking-the-white-man's-road(work a job for money), I had little time or need to paint to eat, so I likely wouldn't have used that book much in the ensuing years.....L.B.
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