Quiet Canyon

Artist/Maker George Browne (United States, 1918 - 1958)

Date1957

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsimage: 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm) frame: 27 1/16 × 37 1/16 × 2 in. (68.7 × 94.1 × 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Wood, National Museum of Wildlife Art

Terms

Object numberW1987.233

DescriptionThree mule deer, two bucks and one doe in a snowy canyon. Evergreen trees line the canyon and puffy white clouds are in the sky. Signed lower left hand corner George Browne. From Isabel Browne Driscol "Quiet Canyon" by George Browne. It was painted in early 1957, on commission to a Chicagoan, Philip Armour, through the Crossroads of Sport in NYC. Its journal title is "Oregon Mule Deer." Mr. Armour did not like the painting - not what he had in his mind's eye. So George painted another for him- and this was returned to Crossroads for sale. Probably it became "Quiet Canyon" at that time. Mr. Dick Mellon bought it in early April of 1957.

Status

Not on view