Lot 145
Lot 145
Property from the Saint Louis Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (1874-1952)

The Camp in the Canyon (Bevo)

Price Realised USD 22,500
Estimate
USD 8,000 - USD 12,000
Closed: 22 May 2018
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Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (1874-1952)

The Camp in the Canyon (Bevo)

Price Realised USD 22,500
Closed: 22 May 2018
Price Realised USD 22,500
Closed: 22 May 2018
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Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (1874-1952)
The Camp in the Canyon (Bevo)
signed 'O.E. Berninghaus.' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and ink on joined paper laid down on board
20¾ x 45 in. (52.7 x 114.3 cm.)

Provenance
The artist.
August A. Busch, Sr., St. Louis, Missouri, commissioned from the above.
August A. Busch, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1976.
Gift to the present owner from the above.
Literature
Saint Louis Art Museum, “1976 Acquisitions,” Bulletin, vol. 13, no. 3, June 1977, p. 106.
G.E. Sanders, Oscar E. Berninghaus, Taos, New Mexico: Master Painter of American Indians and the Frontier West, Taos, New Mexico, 1985, p. 122.
Exhibited
Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum, The Popular West: American Illustrators, 1900-1940, April 1-November 21, 1982, no. 44.
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