LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil en grisaille on paper laid down on board

Size Notes:

23 3?4 x 34 1?2 in. (60.3 x 87.6 cm.)

Description:

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Literature:

C.E. Dutton, Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas, Santa Barbara, California, 1882, pl. XVIII, illustrated (as The Transept, Kaibab). T. Wilkins, Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains, Norman, Oklahoma, 1966, p. 90. C.M. Nelson, William Henry Holmes: Beginning a Career in Art and Science, Washington, D.C., 1980, p. 276n48.

Provenance:

The artist. Major John Wesley Powell, commissioned from the above, 1882. Major James A. Maher, 1902. Mrs. Edith Wilder Scott, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, sister-in-law of the above, 1919. Private collection, by descent. Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 1999, lot 51, sold by the above. Acquired by the late owner from the above.