Lot 156
  • 156

Alfred Jacob Miller 1810-1874

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alfred Jacob Miller
  • Green River, Oregon
  • signed with the artist's monogrammed initials AJM, l.l., and titled Green River Oregon, u.r.
  • watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
  • 7 1/4 by 11 3/4 in.
  • (18.4 by 29.8 cm)

Provenance

Mrs. Joseph Whyte (artist's niece)
Mrs. Laurence R. Carton, Towson, Maryland (her daughter)
Eugena Whyte Carton Dixon, Baltimore, Maryland (her daughter),
circa 1958 
Dennis C. Dixon, Massachusetts (her son; sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 22, 1982, lot 84, illustrated)
William D. Weiss, Jr., Jackson, Wyoming (acquired at the above sale)
J. N. Bartfield Galleries, New York, 1996
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1996

Exhibited

Santa Fe, New Mexico and New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer First Views of the American Frontier, September 1999-January 2000, illustrated in color p. 105

Literature

Ron Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, no. 179, p. 267

Condition

Very good condition; unframed: some matburn along top edge, affixed to mat on the reverse at all four corners.
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