loading 
Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project
Catalogue entry
no. 451
Monument Valley
1929
Watercolor on paper
14 1/4 x 19 in. (36.2 x 48.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Widforss –
Provenance
Goulding's Trading Post Museum, Monument Valley, Arizona
Exhibitions
2012 Museum of Northern Arizona
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, Shadows on the Mesa - Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond, 2012.Published References
Fillmore 2012
Gary Fillmore. Shadows on the Mesa - Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2012, ill. in color.Petersen 2013
Alan Petersen. "Letters from Gunnar." Sojourns (Summer 2013), ill. in color p. 41.Notes
View from up the side canyon near Goulding's Trading Post in Monument Valley. Painted in October 1929 when Widforss also visited the Wetherill-Colville Guest Ranch in Kayenta and Goulding's Trading Post in Monument Valley on a trip with Mike Harrison.
Mike Harrison was a National Park Service ranger at Grand Canyon in the 1920s and a close friend of the artist. He went on to establish an extensive private library of Western art and history, now housed in Special Collections, at the University of California Library, Davis.
Mike Harrison with his cat "Tonto," at the South Rim of Grand Canyon, mid-1920s
loading
Keywords
- United States Locations:
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. "Monument Valley, 1929 (no. 451)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=451 (accessed on April 20, 2024).