VERSO
Label, The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Laurence biographer Kesler Woodward wrote, “In Alaska, Laurence is a legendary figure. To the general public he is so synonymous with grand representation of the North, and most especially of Mount McKinley, North America’s highest peak, that his painting has come to condition the way many Alaskans see their own land. For the state’s contemporary artists, such widespread public acceptance of Laurence’s now more than half-century-old image of the Alaskan landscape as the only ‘true’ picture of the North casts a large shadow.”

PROVENANCE
Paul and Alice Heath, Carmel, California
Mr. & Mrs. Albert C. Swalling, Anchorage, Alaska
Private collection, Anchorage, Alaska, by descent
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2016
Private collection, California

Additional Resources

• Sydney Laurence’s Past Results
• View Condition Report

Condition ReportSurface is in good condition. Canvas is lined. Faint craquelure in top half of the painting. Thin line of inpainting across top, at edge of frame. Specks of inpainting in mountain, sky, and trees in bottom-center.

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