2023 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 167
167
George Browne (1918 – 1958)
Canvasbacks on the Nanticoke River (1950)
oil on canvas
24 × 36 inches
29 × 41 × 1.5 inches (framed)
signed lower left
VERSO
Signed and dated
Typed artist’s description of painting
Canvasbacks on the Nanticoke River was painted by the artist for E. Herrick Low, founding member of Ducks Unlimited and the organization’s fifth president.
PROVENANCE
The artist
E. Herrick Low, New York, New York
Present owner, by descent
LITERATURE
John T. Ordeman and Michael M. Schreiber, George and Belmore Browne: Artists of the North American Wilderness, Warwick Publishing, 2004, p. 115, illustrated