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VERSO
Label, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

In discussing the Rocky Mountains, the artist wrote, “The mountains are very fine; as seen from the plains, they resemble very much the Bernese Alps, one of the finest ranges of mountains in Europe, if not in the world. They are of granite formation, the same as the Swiss mountains and their jagged summits, covered with snow and mingling with the clouds, present a scene which every lover of landscape would gaze upon in unqualified delight.… We see many spots in the scenery that remind us of our New Hampshire and Catskill hills, but when we look up and measure the mighty perpendicular cliffs that rise hundreds of feet aloft, all capped with snow, we then realize that we are among a different class of mountains.”

PROVENANCE
Tom Mitchell, Tequesquite Ranch, Albert, New Mexico
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Vern Milligan, Castle Rock, Colorado, 2005
Present owner, by descent

Condition ReportSurface is in good condition. Paper is mounted to the canvas. Small spots of inpainting in sky, and in upper and lower-right side, near the edge of frame.

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