Enroute, Rocky Mountains

Artist Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810 - 1874)

Date1837

Mediumwatercolor on paper

Dimensions4 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (12.1 x 19.1 cm)
Frame: 7 5/8 × 9 3/8 × 5/8 inches (19.4 × 23.8 × 1.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.34.15

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextMiller spent many hours capturing the progress of the caravan led by Captain William Drummond Stewart to the rendezvous in the valley between the Wind River Mountains and the Bear River Range. Here we see the party after they had passed through the prairie and are approaching the Wind River Mountain Range. Many of his western landscapes include the views along the old Indian trail which later came to be known as the Oregon Trail.

Provenance(Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York)[1]; purchased February 10, 1958 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art | 1. “We have been some ten or a dozen years amassing the rest of this collection from various individuals who were direct descendents[sic] of the pioneer artist himself.” (excerpt from a letter to HJLS from Charles Eberstadt dated November 26, 1957)

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