2017 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 70
70
Gerard Curtis Delano (1890 – 1972)
Canyon Riders
oil on board
18 × 20 inches
signed lower left
VERSO
Signed and titled
Curtis Delano wrote, “There is a vastness, an immensity, and the peaceful hush of an enormous cathedral about Arizona’s great canyons. Whoever has been within these walls and has seen the flocks of sheep and goats grazing, heard the distant tinkle of the lead goat’s bell, listened to the haunting song of the bright-skirted shepherdess, and who has seen in the distance an approaching rider, a tiny speck against the massive walls, must yearn to perpetuate his impressions of those precious moments. That is why I paint the Navajo.”
PROVENANCE
The Artist
The Borgeson Family Collection, Denver, CO
Present owners, by descent