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Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project

Catalogue entry

no. 89
Grand Canyon Scene
1932
Watercolor on paper
34 x 28 in. (86.4 x 71.1 cm)
Signed lower right: Widforss
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Image: Museum of Northern Arizona
Provenance
Margaret Cranford, Greenwich Lodge, Greenwich, Connecticut
The Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
Exhibitions
1987 Mesa Southwest Museum
Mesa Southwest Museum, Mesa, Arizona, Capturing the Canyon, Artists and the Grand Canyon, May 23–July 26, 1987. (Mead 1987).
2009 Museum of Northern Arizona
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, Gunnar Widforss - Painter of the National Parks, November 20, 2009–June 1, 2010.
2016 Eiteljorg Museum
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Grand Canyon, 2016.
2018 Ljungbergmuseet
Ljungbergmuseet, Ljungby, Sweden, Gunnar Widforss - Akvarellmålaren, June 16–September 16, 2018. (Ljungberg, Sjöberg and Petersen 2018), no. 33.
Published References
Grand Canyon Nature Notes 1934
The issue had a remembrance of Widforss. Grand Canyon Nature Notes Vol. 9 - No. 9 (December 1934), On the cover of.
Mead 1987
Mead, Tray C., editor. Capturing the Canyon, Artists and the Grand Canyon. Mesa: Mesa Southwest Museum, 1987. Exhibition catalogue (1987 Mesa Southwest Museum).
Ljungberg, Sjöberg and Petersen 2018
Ljungberg, Pontus, Fredrik Sjöberg, and Alan Petersen. Gunnar Widforss - Akvarellmålaren. Lungby: Ljungbergmuseet, 2018. Exhibition catalogue (2018 Ljungbergmuseet), ill. in color p. 6.
Notes

Originally priced at $200.

Reproduced on the cover of the December 1934 Grand Canyon Nature Notes, which featured a remembrance of Widforss following his death in November 1934.

On a photo in Widforss' scrapbook, this painting is titled Battleship and Temple of Shiva, (two of the formations seen in the subject) and dated 1932.

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Record last updated June 7, 2020. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Grand Canyon Scene, 1932 (no. 89)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=89 (accessed on March 29, 2024).