Details
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
21 x 45 in. (53.3 x 114.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1917.
Provenance
The artist.
August A. Busch, Sr., St. Louis, Missouri, commissioned from the above.
August A. Busch, Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, by descent from the above, 1976.
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, gift from the above, 1976.
Christie’s Online, 15-22 May 2018, lot 145, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
Saint Louis Art Museum, “1976 Acquisitions,” Bulletin, vol. XIII, 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 2-November 21, 1982, pp. 7, 53, no. 44, illustrated.
FURTHER DETAILS
This work will be included in the Kodner Gallery Research Project on the artist, Oscar Edmund Berninghaus, 1874-1952.
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Situated near St. Louis’s old Dutchtown neighborhood, the Bevo Mill became a popular local landmark. Opened by August Busch, Sr. in 1917, the restaurant was established around the same time this painting was made.

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