Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project

Catalogue entry

no. 100

Crater Lake

1932

Watercolor on paper

18 x 25 in. (45.7 x 63.5 cm)

Signed lower left: Widforss

The Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, C2082

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Image: Museum of Northern Arizona

Provenance

Artists's Estate

Fred and Genevieve Witteborg, Grand Canyon, Arizona

The Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1984 (by gift)

Exhibitions

1937 Museum of Northern Arizona

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, Memorial Exhibition of Watercolors by Gunnar Mauritz Widforss, August 14–29, 1937.

2009 Museum of Northern Arizona

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, Gunnar Widforss - Painter of the National Parks, November 20, 2009–June 1, 2010.

Notes

View from Kerr Notch.

In a letter from Ansel Hall to John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institution dated September 30, 1932 Hall describes the painting – “No. 3 is a view from Kerr Notch in morning light and under entirely different conditions from No.2. The painting is more photographic than No. 1 or No. 2, but seems to lack atmosphere. The reflections are particularly good. Widforss says that he intends doing this over again with changed foreground.”

Park Service news article about Widforss' 1932 visit to Crater Lake

Genevieve and Fred Witteborg, the original owners, worked at Grand Canyon for 30 years or more.

Authenticated by administrator of Widforss Estate: Daniel McDade and notarized by JG Stephens, Notary Public, Coconino County, 12/11/36.

Record last updated March 24, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Crater Lake, 1932 (no. 100)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=100 (accessed on April 20, 2024).