2025 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction
Carl Rungius (1869 – 1959)
Lake O’Hara
oil on canvas
16 × 20 inches
24 × 28 × 2 inches (framed)
signed lower right
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Bridgewater, Connecticut
The artist reflecting upon locales he painted during his life remarked, “Wyoming is fairly arid in most places and lack of humidity – atmosphere’ to a painter – results in sharp edges, even at a distance, which gives objects a photographic appearance.… My stay in the Yukon was too short to form an opinion; besides this area is too remote for regular work. But in Alberta, with its scenic grandeur and its remarkable wealth of big-game species, I felt that I had found at last the land which I had been seeking.”