Wasatch Range above Salt Lake City

Details

GILBERT MUNGER (1837-1903)
Wasatch Range above Salt Lake City
signed and dated 'Gilbert Munger 1873.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 ½ x 23 in. (34.3 x 58.4 cm.)
Painted in 1873.

Provenance

(Probably) George F. McMurray, Glendale, California.
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York, 8-9 May 2010, lot 430.
Thomas Colville Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2011.

Further details

This work is included as number 278 in The Art of Gilbert Munger (gilbertmunger.org) by Michael D. Schroeder (as Lake Utah, Okrah Mountains [sic]).

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Lot Essay

In 1873, Gilbert Munger traveled back East from San Francisco, traveling through Salt Lake City on the way. The present work depicts a prospect to the southeast of the city of the Wasatch Mountains, with Mount Olympus visible at left.

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