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Bert Geer Phillips (1868 – 1956)
The Lost Trail
oil on board
24 × 27 inches
signed and inscribed, “Taos N. M.” lower right

PROVENANCE
Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY by 1977
Wilfred Friedman, Pojoaque, NM 1980
[C. M. Russell Auction, Great Falls, MT 1982]
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
The Estate of Daniel L. Berman, Salt Lake City, UT

EXHIBITED
A Personal View of the American West: Canvases from the Collection of Dan And Susan Berman, Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, Mar 26 - Aug 8, 1999

LITERATURE
Kennedy Quarterly, vol XV, no 3 (New York, NY: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1977), illustrated
Patricia Janis Broder, Taos: A Painter’s Dream (New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), p 133, illustrated halftone
Julie Schimmel and Robert R. White, Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1994), pp 195-97, 238

195

Bert Geer Phillips

1868 – 1956

The Lost Trail
oil on board
24 × 27 inches
signed and inscribed, “Taos N. M.” lower right
Sold at Auction: $59,500
Condition ReportSurface condition is excellent. Several spots of inpainting around perimeter, at edge of frame. Five small spots of inpainting to right of horse’s head. Four small spots of inpainting to left of Indian’s foot. Spot of inpainting on horse’s front leg.

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