Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project

Catalogue entry

no. 497

Death Valley

Alternate titles: Near 20 Mule Camp (artist's estate); Northern Arizona Desert

c.1934

Watercolor on paper

19 1/2 x 23 in. (49.5 x 58.4 cm)

Signed lower left: Widforss –

Collection of Abe Hays, Scottsdale, Arizona

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Provenance

Artists's Estate, no. 172

Collection of Abe Hays, Scottsdale, Arizona

Exhibitions

1990 Mesa Southwest Museum

Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, Arizona, The Living Mirage, March 17–May 27, 1990.

2006–08 Mesa Southwest Museum & traveling

Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, Arizona, Grand Canyon Grandeur, November 18, 2006–March 18, 2007. (Exhibition catalogue: Wilson and Hays 2007). Traveled to: Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, Arizona, April 18–August 12, 2007; Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, February 9–May 26, 2008.

Published References

Fillmore 2012

Gary Fillmore. Shadows on the Mesa - Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2012, ill. in color.

Notes

View of Death Valley looking NW near Furnace Creek, Cottonwood Mountains on the left and the Grapevine Mountains on the right.

Record last updated June 6, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Death Valley, c.1934 (no. 497)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=497 (accessed on April 18, 2024).