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THBJohn Fery (1859-1934), Lake McDonald
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United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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LiveJul 9, 2021
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John Fery (1859-1934)
Lake McDonald
signed "J Fery" lower right
oil on canvas, 45 by 72 in.
Born in Austria in 1859, John Fery trained as an artist at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and in Dusseldorf and Munich, Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1883, finding work as a cyclorama painter in Milwaukee, then settling in Duluth, Minnesota, after a spell back in Europe.
From 1910 to 1913, railroad tycoon Louis W. Hill commissioned Fery to capture the landscapes of what became Glacier National Park. The match was ideal since Fery was an avid outdoorsman and hunter in addition to being an accomplished artist. Peterson writes, "For John Fery the mountains were the beginning and end of all natural scenery. They were the essence of his real world."
Of the jaw-dropping Glacier Park vistas Fery visited, John Muir wrote, "In a few minutes you will find yourself in the midst of what you are sure to say is the best care killing scenery on the continent--beautiful lakes derived straight from glaciers, lofty mountains steeped in lovely nemophilia-blue skies...mossy, fernie waterfalls...meadowy gardens abounding in the best of everything...The king of larches..Lake McDonald, full of brisk trout...Give a month at least to this precious reserve. The times will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal."
In 1911 Fery and his family lived in a cabin on the south end of Lake McDonald, near the summer cottage of famed cowboy artist Charlie Russell and his wife, Nancy. Fery hiked, sketched, and painted extensively throughout the surrounding landscape, producing spectacular oil paintings that capture the essence of the mountains. He exhibited a number of his Glacier Park oils in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
Fery died in Everett, Washington, in 1934, and his works can be found in private collections, as well as the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY, the Charles M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT, and the Boise Art Museum in Boise, ID, among others.
Provenance: Private Collection, Sun Valley, Idaho
Literature: Larry Len Peterson, "John Fery: Artist of Glacier National Park & the American West," Hayden, ID, 2015, pp. 71, 72, 95, illustrated.Please email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com. Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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