Worthington Whittredge

New York, Ortgies & Co., 29 January 1890, lot 76

Kennedy Galleries, New York

Harry Lockwood, Cincinnati

Terry DeLapp, Los Angeles

Private Collection, Santa Fe

Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 82 (titled Indian Encampment)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Call of the Wild: The Primal Adventure, 1984, no. 56, pp. 19 and 29, illustrated (titled Indian Encampment)

"The Great American West: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries," Kennedy Quarterly, 1973, no. 3, no. 140, p. 166 and 189, illustrated (titled Indian Encampment)

Anthony F. Janson, Worthington Whittredge, Cambridge 1989, pp. 93-94, illustrated (titled Mohawk)

The present landscape depicts Lake Mohonk, located approximately 14 miles northwest of Poughkeepsie, New York. Due to the teepee set at the water's edge in the lower right corner, the scene was initially incorrectly believed to represent an Indian encampment in the American West. More recently, the painting has been correctly associated with a sketch made in upstate New York, for which the inscription was incorrectly read as "Mohawk." Whittredge visited Lake Mohonk with a group of fellow artists in the late 1860s, soon after returning from his first trip west. During his trip, in Santa Fe, Whittredge had purchased a teepee, quite possibly the one painted in the present landscape, and now in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

Our thanks to Dr. Kenneth John Myers for clarifying the subject of the present work.