2024 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 102
102
Ernest Blumenschein (1874 – 1960)
Love of Life (1904)
oil on canvas
30 × 19 inches
37 × 27 × 2.5 inches (framed)
signed and dated lower right
PROVENANCE
Christie’s, New York, New York, 1997
Illustration House, New York, New York, 2002
Private collection, Great Falls, Virginia
EXHIBITED
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1910
LITERATURE
Jack London, “Love of Life.” McClure’s Magazine, December 1905, p. 147, illustrated
Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham, In Contemporary Rhythm: the Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein, University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, pp. 49, 68, 285