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Locale: Nevada
As of 2000 the frame showed a brass plaque with "Lake Marion, Humboldt Mts, Gilbert Munger" and an envelope attached to the back contained the remnants of a paper label with "1871 No. 27." The label likely comes from the third annual exhibition of the Yale School of Fine Art in 1871.
Sold at a 1970s auction by the James J. Hill Reference Library to dealer Harlan Stockton of Wayzata MN, who then sold it to a private collection. That owner's estate sold the painting at the Toomey & Co Auctioneers, Oak Park IL, 8 December 2019 sale #121 as lot 72 for $7,500 + 25%. The buyer offered the painting at the 27 July 2024 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno NV as lot 155, where it was bought by the Nevada Museum of Art for $15,000 + 21%. Image from Coeur d'Alene Art Auction.
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#181. Lake Marian, Humboldt Mts.
10 x 20, oil on canvas. "Gilbert Munger 1871" lower right; "Lake Marian, Humboldt Mts" reverse. This painting closely matches Plate II Lake Marian - Humboldt Range - Nevada in Systematic Geology (see #145). Paintings #1, #2, #178, and #304 are different-sized examples of the same scene. This is the only Munger "Lake Marian" painting that has come down to us still associated with the correct title. A St.Louis Co. (MN) Historical Society Newsletter article describes the rediscovery of Munger's "Lake Marian".As of 2000 the frame showed a brass plaque with "Lake Marion, Humboldt Mts, Gilbert Munger" and an envelope attached to the back contained the remnants of a paper label with "1871 No. 27." The label likely comes from the third annual exhibition of the Yale School of Fine Art in 1871.
Sold at a 1970s auction by the James J. Hill Reference Library to dealer Harlan Stockton of Wayzata MN, who then sold it to a private collection. That owner's estate sold the painting at the Toomey & Co Auctioneers, Oak Park IL, 8 December 2019 sale #121 as lot 72 for $7,500 + 25%. The buyer offered the painting at the 27 July 2024 Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno NV as lot 155, where it was bought by the Nevada Museum of Art for $15,000 + 21%. Image from Coeur d'Alene Art Auction.
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© Michael D. Schroeder 2 Apr 2000; Updated 29 Jul 2024.