Lake in Wind River Mountains
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Dateafter 1837
Mediumwatercolor, pen and ink on paper
Dimensions9 x 14 5/8 inches (22.9 x 37.1 cm)
Frame: 17 × 22 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (43.2 × 56.8 × 2.9 cm)
Frame: 17 × 22 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (43.2 × 56.8 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.10
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextMiller greatly admired the Wind River Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain Range in west central Wyoming. He described the sublime beauty of this region: “We found the way exceedingly rough in journeying to these Lakes… we scrambled over the rocks, through briars and brushwood, crossed rapid streams and ascended steep acclivities. We at last found ourselves on the borders of these beautiful Lakes, and were richly repaid for all our difficulties. From immense sheets of clear water, mountains rose back of mountains, each higher than the other, until the highest terminated in needle points of solid granite, covered with snow…”
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 H.J. Lutcher Stark from Charles Eberstadt dated November 26, 1957)
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