2018 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 262
262
Robert Griffing (b. 1940)
The Bear Skin Robe (2007)
oil on canvas
30 × 24 inches
signed and dated lower right
Describing this painting Tim Todish wrote, “This warrior wears a brain-tanned bearskin as a robe. The use of animal skins in this manner gave the Indians a mystique and an aura of fierceness that often struck fear into the hearts of early white settlers.”
PROVENANCE
The Artist
[Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, AZ 2007]
Private Collection, Tucson, AZ 2007
Private Collection, MT
EXHIBITED
Summer Show, Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, AZ, May 2007
LITERATURE
Tim J. Todish, The Narrative Art of Robert Griffing, Volume II (Gibsonia, PA: Paramount Press, Inc., 2007), p 140, illustrated