282

VERSO
Signed, titled, dated, and “#1240”

Of the painting artist Tom Saubert wrote, “From year to year, good patches of buffalo berries usually remained fairly stable in the locations known for them. Berry gathering was an important activity since the addition of this fruit was important to a diet heavy with meat. At the eastern edge of their territorial range, a band of Blackfeet have pitched their fall berry camp near Wild Horse Butte on Arrow Creek, just south of the Missouri River. It was an area visited by Assiniboine and Gros Ventre hunting parties. Ever wary, an older member of the band leads the younger guards as the vigilantly protect the berry pickers from paternal enemy surprise.”

PROVENANCE
The artist
Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, Arizona, 2013
Private collection, Montana
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2015
Private collection, Texas

EXHIBITED
The Great American West, Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, Arizona, 2013

LITERATURE
The Great American West, Settlers West Galleries, 2013, pp. 18-19, illustrated
Tom Saubert, Z. S. Liang: Native Trails, Fresh Tracks, Greenwich Workshop Press, 2014, p. 128, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface condition is excellent. No signs of restoration.

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