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VERSO
Exhibition label, The Albany Museum of Art

Verner biographer Joan Murray wrote, “Frederick Arthur Verner’s own peers in the field of painting the West—such as the American western painter Charles Marion Russell—recognized Verner’s genius. So did the Canadian and English public of the day, which avidly bought Verner’s work. Critics, too, approved. His pictures of buffalo life were ‘a class of subject where he stands almost alone and unrivalled,’ said Toronto’s The Globe in 1906. Verner set ‘a sort of standard in this department of art,’ it added in 1908.”

PROVENANCE
Midwest Collection
Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, OH 1978
Merrill J. Gross Collection, Cincinnati, OH 1979
The Collection of Robert Drummond, Hayden, ID

EXHIBITED
A Vanishing Way of Life: Images of the Old West, The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, June 28 - Sept 1, 1991

Condition ReportSurface condition is very good. Faint bar marks along top, right, and left sides. Several hairline cracks in sky. Painting has been lined. Several specks of inpainting in lower-right corner, near edge of frame. Spot of inpainting in upper-left corner, at edge of frame. Five specks of inpainting in left-center, near edge of framing. Two spots of inpainting in top-center, at edge of frame. Two-inch horizontal line of inpainting in top-center, in sky.

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