2013 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 195163 / 309  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Sydney Laurence (1865 – 1940)
Mt. McKinley from the Susitna River
oil on canvas
16 × 20 inches
signed lower left

Verso:
Label with artist’s signature and title

Alaskan artist Rusty Heurlin once wrote, “Not until the early thirties did I meet him [Laurence]-a day long to be remembered in meeting him and Jeanne too. Right away I was taken to his studio and what a sight I did see. Reproductions of his Mt. McKinley paintings were familiar to me but now I saw his originals-marine and hill and mountain scenes all rich in color and beautiful in tone. But I have no words to describe these first originals I saw that day in his studio or should I try, as each painting spoke of things this master, who always mixed feeling with medium, was successful in getting across to the connoisseur, the native or the common man on the street.”

195

Sydney Laurence

1865 – 1940

Mt. McKinley from the Susitna River
oil on canvas
16 × 20 inches
signed lower left
Sold at Auction: $35,100
Condition ReportOriginal canvas, surface condition good, no restoration.

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