Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project

Catalogue entry

no. 557

Yellowstone Canyon

1924

Watercolor

Signed and dated lower right: Widforss 1924

Private collection, Palm Desert

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Image: Private collector

Provenance

Thomas and Elizabeth Wylie McKee, 1925

Martha Lynn Krueger (by descent), 2005

Jackson Hole Art Auction, 2012

Private collection, Palm Desert, California, 2012

Notes

Painted near Artist's Point. Widforss only painted at Yellowstone National Park once, during July 1924. In his Superintendent's Monthly Report for July 1924, in the Special Visitors section, Horace M. Albright wrote that, "Mr. Gunnar Widforss, Swedish artist, entered the park via West Yellowstone, July 3rd, and has spent his entire time at the Canyon, painting pictures of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. He is going to look over the terraces at Mammoth and if he finds them suitable for painting he expects to make some large paintings."

Widforss traded this painting to Thomas and Elizabeth Wylie McKee who ran the Wylie Way Camp on the North Rim of Grand Canyon in exchange for lodging. The Camp was operated by the McKees from 1917 – 1928. Brighty, the famous burro featured in Marguerite Henry's book Brighty of the Grand Canyon, occasionally lived and worked at the camp.

Keywords

United States Locations:
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Record last updated June 24, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Yellowstone Canyon, 1924 (no. 557)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=557 (accessed on April 19, 2024).