JOSHUA SHAW (1776-1861)

Lot 250
18.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 50 000
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ID 1119049
Lot 250 | JOSHUA SHAW (1776-1861)
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$ 50 000 – 70 000
JOSHUA SHAW (1776-1861)

The Coming of the White Man

signed and dated '1850. J. Shaw.' (lower left)

oil on canvas

25 x 36 in. (63.5 x 91.4 cm.)

Painted in 1850.





Provenance

Elisabeth Waldo-Dentzel, Northridge, California, by 1991.

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

J.G. Sweeney, Masterpieces of Western American Art, New York, 1991, pp. 6, 16, illustrated.



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, March 15-July 7, 1991, pp. 73-76, no. 5, fig. 63, illustrated.
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