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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 25, 2015 | Christie's | New York | American Paintings | 62 | Estimates not disclosed | Lake in the Wind River Country |
paintings
45.7 x 61 cm (17.99 x 24.02 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'A.J. Miller 1854' (lower right)
The artist. (Possibly) Melville Wilson, 1854. C.R. Smith, Washington, D.C. Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1968-77.
Private collection, Chicago, Illinois. Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1979
Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota Memorial Art Center, The Art of South Dakota , September 15-October 27, 1974. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Lewis and Clark's America , July 15-September 26, 1976. Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, and elsewhere, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail , January 29-March 14, 1982, no. 77. Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Collects Paintings , March-May 1983. Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection , June 17-August 21, 1994
Kennedy Quarterly , vol. VIII, no. 2, June 1968, p. 54, no. 46, illustrated (as Landscape in Oregon ). Kennedy Quarterly , vol. XII, no. 3, June 1973, pp. 164, 188, no. 139, illustrated (as Western Landscape and Rocky Mountain Landscape ). J. Stuart, The Art of South Dakota , exhibition catalogue, Brookings, South Dakota, 1974, p. 34, no. 57, illustrated (as Western Landscape ). Seattle Art Museum, Lewis and Clark's America , exhibition catalogue, Seattle, Washington, 1976, p. 73, no. 50, illustrated (as Western Landscape ). Kennedy Quarterly , vol. XV, no. 3, June 1977, pp. 156, 187, no. 117, illustrated. R. Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller on the Oregon Trail , exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, p. 287, no. 260, pl. 74, illustrated. Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection , exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994, pp. 50-51
