Live Auction 20917From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection
GILBERT MUNGER (1837-1903)
Lot 214

GILBERT MUNGER (1837-1903)

Lake Marian, Humboldt Range, Nevada

Closed19 January 2023

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GILBERT MUNGER (1837-1903)
Lake Marian, Humboldt Range, Nevada
signed and dated 'Gilbert Munger 1871.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
26 x 44 in. (66 x 111.8 cm.)
Painted in 1871.

The artist.
(Possibly) Clarence King, acquired from the above, 1871.
North Point Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2000.

Specialist note

In 1868, American geologist Clarence King discovered Lake Marian in northeastern Nevada, commissioning Gilbert Munger to record the locale in oil with topographical accuracy. Now known as Overland Lake, Munger painted at least four versions of the present scene. According to Michael D. Schroeder and J. Gray Sweeney, the present painting is the largest of these works and one of his most compelling in its poetic use of light (Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction, Afton, Minnesota, 2003, p. 47).