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Jul 27, 2024
Frank McCarthy (1924 – 2002)
Rendezvous (1978)
oil on board
24 × 36 inches
signed and dated lower right
VERSO
Signed, titled, and “#429”
Describing this painting Elmer Kelton wrote, “Mixed together in colorful pageantry, trappers and friendly Indians gleefully greet the arrival of trade wagons and pack trains at the site of the annual fur-trading rendezvous. These gatherings spared the mountain men the necessity of carrying their pelts all the way eastward to Saint Louis for sale.”
PROVENANCE
Peter C. Cook, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Private collection, by descent
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2018
Private collection, Beaver Creek, Colorado
LITERATURE
Elmer Kelton, The Art of Frank C. McCarthy, The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1992, pp. 138-139, illustrated
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Surface is in excellent condition. No signs of restoration.