#1. Lake Marian, Humboldt Range, Nevada.

  11 × 22, oil on canvas, relined. "Gilbert Munger" lower right.

This painting was sold by Montrose Galleries, Fredericksburg VA, in October 1992. It closely matches Plate II in Clarence King's Systematic Geology (see #145), which is based on a Munger sketch. The painting title comes from that plate. King named the lake after his sister, and told her about it in a booklet he wrote and printed as her Christmas present in 1870. There are four other versions of this scene: #2, #145, #178, and #181. The painting appeared in The Kennedy Quarterly, June 1966, p.78 and also in an ad in American Art Review, Spring 1992, p.74. IAP 78040003. A St. Louis Co. (MN) Historical Society Newsletter article describes discovering the location of Munger's "Lake Marian". Image from author's photo.