2012 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 231
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Belmore Browne (1880 – 1954)
Wardens of the Forty Mile [or] Forty Mile Valley (1930)
oil on canvas
30 × 40 inches
signed lower left
These peaks are located in the Sawback range, Banff Park, Alberta.
Wardens of the Forty Mile is recorded in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Inventory of American Paintings.
LITERATURE:
Robert H. Bates, Mountain Man: The Story of Belmore Browne (Clinton, New Jersey: The Amwell Press, 1988), illustrated
PROVENANCE:
The Artist, gifted to
Evelyn Browne (his daughter)
Isabel Browne Driscoll (her sister-in-law), by descent