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Lot 251
Description:
American School, mid-19th c., "Fishing on the Dam", oil on canvas, unsigned, the canvas stamped "Jas. Spore, 101 Fourth St., St. Louis, MO", with illegible inscriptions on the frame en verso, 18 1/8 in. x 24 in., in a period giltwood frame.
- Notes: Note: The Missouri River has a long history of importance to American explorers, frontiersmen, and settlers. The wide, muddy river extends from Montana to St. Louis, Missouri, where it meets up with the Mississippi at its confluence with tributaries from seven states. The river was first investigated by the French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, followed by Etienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, James MacKay and John Evans, and Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Daniel Boone, John James Audubon, and numerous other frontiersmen are known to have travelled along the river. The Missouri River was made famous in paintings by artists including the great American painter George Caleb Bingham, who created compositions such as Fur Traders Descending the Missouri and The Jolly Flatboatmen. The present lot exhibits numerous similarities in subject matter to Bingham's works, focusing on the carefree nature of life upon the river.
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September 11, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
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