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2022 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 83130 / 321  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865 – 1937)
Tale-O with Squirrels (1915)
oil on canvas
20 × 16 inches
signed and dated lower left

VERSO
Signed and “#465”

The artist wrote, “The Indians are especially fond of squirrels or any game. The old folks say that the reason the tribe is dying is because they are compelled to eat beef and flour instead of fish, game, acorns, buckeyes, wild bulbs and tubers, shellfish and sea-weed, salt from the pine tree.”

LITERATURE
Searles R. Boynton D.D.S., The Painter Lady Grace Carpenter Hudson, Sun House Guild, 1978, p. 122, illustrated

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Grace Carpenter Hudson

1865 – 1937

Tale-O with Squirrels (1915)
oil on canvas
20 × 16 inches
signed and dated lower left
Sold at Auction: $18,150
Condition ReportSurface is in good condition. Canvas is edge lined. Craquelure throughout. Multiple specks of inpainting in lower-left and upper-left corners.

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