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John Mulvany (1839-1906)
Awaiting the Claim Jumpers (Trappers of the Yellowstone)
signed and dated 'Jno Mulvany/1877' (lower left)
oil on canvas
4814 x 3614 in. (122.6 x 92 cm.)
Painted in 1877.
Provenance
Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, circa 1970s.
From whom stolen, November 6, 1974.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1982.
Returned to the present owner, 2018.
Literature
A. Weber-Scobie, The Life and Work of Irish-American Artist John Mulvany (1839-1906), Binghamton, New York, 1993, pp. 1, 17.
P.A. Hutton, ed., The Custer Reader, Norman, Oklahoma, 2004, p. 454.
N. O’Sullivan, “‘All native, all our own, and a fact’: John Mulvany and the Irish American Dream,” Field Day Review, vol. 7, Dublin, Ireland, 2011, p. 141 (as Trappers of the Yellowstone).
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In 1872, John Mulvany embarked on a trip West that resulted in a number of paintings, including three known versions of the present scene. Other examples are known as On the Alert (1876) and Scouts of the Yellowstone (n.d.).

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