Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
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Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)

Lake in the Wind River Country

Details
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Lake in the Wind River Country
signed and dated 'A.J. Miller 1854' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
(Possibly) Melville Wilson, 1854.
C.R. Smith, Washington, D.C.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1968-77.
Private collection, Chicago, Illinois.
Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1979.
Literature
Kennedy Quarterly, vol. VIII, no. 2, June 1968, p. 54, no. 46, illustrated (as Landscape in Oregon).
Kennedy Quarterly, vol. XII, no. 3, June 1973, pp. 164, 188, no. 139, illustrated (as Western Landscape and Rocky Mountain Landscape).
J. Stuart, The Art of South Dakota, exhibition catalogue, Brookings, South Dakota, 1974, p. 34, no. 57, illustrated (as Western Landscape).
Seattle Art Museum, Lewis and Clark's America, exhibition catalogue, Seattle, Washington, 1976, p. 73, no. 50, illustrated (as Western Landscape).
Kennedy Quarterly, vol. XV, no. 3, June 1977, pp. 156, 187, no. 117, illustrated.
R. Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller on the Oregon Trail, exhibition catalogue, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, p. 287, no. 260, pl. 74, illustrated.
Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection, exhibition catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994, pp. 50-51.
Exhibited
Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota Memorial Art Center, The Art of South Dakota, September 15-October 27, 1974.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Lewis and Clark's America, July 15-September 26, 1976.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, and elsewhere, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, January 29-March 14, 1982, no. 77.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Collects Paintings, March-May 1983.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Home on the Range: American Western Art from a Cincinnati Collection, June 17-August 21, 1994.

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