VERSO
Signed, titled, and “#474”
Label, Altermann & Morris Galleries, Dallas, Texas
Label, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Reflecting on the scene depicted, the artist wrote, “This is a scenic painting of the Northwest with the three trappers and their pack horses as part of the landscape. They are pausing at the edge of a river, deciding where to cross. The logs in the foreground were deposited by spring runoff when the water was high, and grass has grown up around them.”

EXHIBITED
Gilcrease Rendezvous, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1984

LITERATURE
Elmer Kelton, Frank C. McCarthy: The Old West, A Portrait in Paintings, Greenwich Press, 1981, p. 25, illustrated
Elmer Kelton, The Art of Frank McCarthy, The Greenwich Workshop, 1992, p. 17, illustrated