Name: Allen Blagden (b. 1938)
Brand: The Broad Axe
Price: 55000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Allen Blagden (b. 1938)
The Broad Axe
signed 'Allen Blagden' (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
40½ x 25½ in. (102.9 x 64.8 cm.)
Executed in 1987

The artist.
[With]Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2009.

R.L. McGrath, A Wild Sort of Beauty: Public Places and Private Visions, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 1992, p. 40, illustrated.
Adirondack Life, vol. 24, 1993, p. 17, illustrated.
K. Boughton, "Blagden's Brush Captures Beauty of Hidden Places," Taconic Week, August 26, 1993, p. T3.
W. Adelson, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Supplement, vol. V, New York, 2015, pp. 76-77, no. 19, illustrated.

Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries; Blue Mountain Lake, New York, Adirondack Museum, Wilderness Solitude: A Collection of New Paintings by Allen Blagden, November 20, 1987-October 16, 1988, p. 5, no. 7, illustrated.
Lake Placid, New York, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Scenes of Lake Placid, August-September 1993.
Lakeville, Connecticut, The Hotchkiss School, Tremaine Gallery, Allen Blagden, A Selection of Works: Paintings, Drawings & Etchings, May 1-June 14, 2009, no. 17.

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The Broad Axe depicts Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks with Lake Placid in the distance. Allen Blagden wrote to David Rockefeller regarding the present work, "I am so glad that The Broad Axe is now part of your collection because it has always been one of my best works, and a good memory of my youthful years in the Adirondacks." (unpublished letter, May 5, 2009)