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VERSO
Signed and titled

The artist once said, “There is a vastness, an immensity, and the peaceful hush of an enormous cathedral about Arizona’s great canyons. Whoever has been within these walls and has seen the flocks of sheep and goats grazing, heard the distant tinkle of the lead goat’s bell, listened to the haunting song of the bright-skirted shepherdess, and who has seen in the distance an approaching rider, a tiny speck against the massive walls, must yearn to perpetuate his impressions of those precious moments. That is why I paint the Navajo.”

PROVENANCE
The Artist
Park Floral Galleries, Denver, CO
Harrison Eiteljorg, Indianapolis, IN 1970
Zaplin-Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
[Christie’s, New York, NY 2009]
Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2009
Corporate Collection, Ft. Worth, TX 2009
[Heritage Auctions, Dallas, TX 2015]
Private Collection, TX 2015

EXHIBITED
Western American Art: Selections from the Harrison Eiteljorg Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Jan - Feb 1976

LITERATURE
Richard G. Bowman, Walking With Beauty, The Art and Life of Gerard Curtis Delano (Denver, CO: Richard G. Bowman, 1990), p 60, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface condition is good. Painting has been edge lined. Several hairline cracks throughout. Spot of inpainting in upper-right corner, near edge of frame. Several cracks of inpainting in sky.

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