Summer’s Mantle of Peace

Anthony Buchta

James R. Ross Fine Art

1939
Oil on canvas
32 x 34 inches

Other Information
Inscription: Signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Harriet Curry Collection, Bloomington, Indiana (thence by descent); Private Collection, Zionsville, Indiana (purchased from the former).
Exhibited: Picture Galleries, Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, Illinois, "1940 Hoosier Salon," January 29–February 10, 1940 (23), Thomas Meek Butler Memorial, Best Landscape in Oil Prize ($200); Nashville, Indiana, Brown County Art Gallery, "Collectors' Showcase 2024, Hoosier Salon Centennial: Art From the Heartland," October 5–November 10, 2024.
Literature: "The Indianapolis Star" February 14, 1940; Lyn Letsinger-Miller, "The Artists of Brown County," Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2019, p. 196 (color); illustrated in the catalog accompanying the above Collectors' Showcase exhibition, p. 15 (color).
Note: Excellent condition, fine original frame. The combination of the size, quality and beauty, and exhibition and publication history mark this picture as the artist's best known masterwork.
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