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VERSO
Label, “Property of the Bank of America Collection”
Exhibition label, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

PROVENANCE
Eugenia Miller Whyte (the artist’s niece) or Louisa Whyte Norton (the artist’s grandniece)
The Old Print Shop, New York, NY 1947
The Boatman’s National Bank, St. Louis, MO (now Bank of America) 1947
[Sotheby’s, New York, NY 2013]
Private Collection, NY 2013

EXHIBITED
The Boatman’s National Bank, St. Louis, MO, May 1964, no. 33
Alfred Jacob Miller: Romancing the West in the Bank of America Collection
 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Sept 25, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011
 Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX, Feb 13 - May 8, 2011
 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, June 4 - Sept 13, 2011

LITERATURE
Mary Bartlett Cowdrey and Helen Comstock, Alfred Jacob Miller and the Farthest West (Panorama, September-August 1947, vol. 3, no. 1), p 1
Ron Tyler ed., Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail (Fort Worth, TX: 1982, no. 134), p 242
Exhibition catalog, Alfred Jacob Miller: Romancing the West in the Bank of America Collection, p 86, illustrated

Condition ReportAs viewed through glass. Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Colors are bright, with no signs of fading.

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