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VERSO
Label, Jim Fowler’s Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona

Rocky Mountain Valley After Rain will be included in the Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné. A letter from Melissa Webster Speidel, Director of the Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné, will accompany the lot.

According to Bierstadt historian Melissa Webster Speidel, “Bierstadt traveled to the Rocky Mountains several times during his career. The scene is comparable in topography to Wasatch Mountains, Utah with similar mountain peaks, prairie land and also a body of water. The Wasatch Range is a south-central part of the Rocky Mountains and it is possible that Rocky Mountain Valley After Rain is a view of the Wasatch Range that Bierstadt would have seen on trips in 1863, 1871, 1873 and 1881.”

PROVENANCE
Dr. and Mrs. Franz R. Stenzel, Portland, Oregon
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, California, 1980
Jim Fowler’s Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona
Red McCombs Collection, San Antonio, Texas

EXHIBITED
Art Perspectives of Historic Pacific Northwest, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana, 1963
Art Perspectives of Historic Pacific Northwest, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Spokane, Washington, 1963

LITERATURE
Art Perspectives of Historic Pacific Northwest, Montana Historical Society, 1963, p. 5, illustrated
Jim Fowler’s Period Gallery West, 1982, p. 22, illustrated

Condition ReportSurface is in excellent condition. Spot of inpainting lower-left corner, at the edge of frame.

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