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Hungabee Mountain from Old Lake O'Hara Camp - Montagnes Hungabee, 1926
Oil on board - Huile sur carton
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in
21.6 x 26.7 cm
21.6 x 26.7 cm
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Provenance
Gallery Walter Klinkhoff; Private Collection. - Gallery Walter Klinkhoff; Collection Particulière.Exhibitions
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, Recent Acquisitions, 16 November 2006, no. 43.Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, Toronto, Classical Canadian Art, May 2016.
signed l.r. "J.E.H. MacDonald"; Label on verso hand-written and signed by J.E.H.MacDonald: "HUNGABEE Mountain from old Lake O'Hara Camp, Rocky Mtn, Canada. 8 miles south of C.P.R. The sketch was made at the beginning of Sept. 1926, at an altitude of about 6800 ft. when a recent snowfall had almost disappeared. Hungabee has an altitude of 11,447 ft. The name is a Stoney Indian word for "Chieftain", signifying surprise or commanding. The depression on the right is OPHABIN PASS & at the right side MT. BIDDLE (10,878 ft.) under which lies the famous mountain lake McARTHUR."; Handwritten on back L " Certified, Thoreau MacDonald - Thornhill 1965"
