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Ogden Pleissner was a family friend of the Chubbs and often fished with them at Camp Hurleux on the St. Anne River located on the Gaspe Peninsula of Canada's Quebec province. Percy Chubb (b. 1858) was a noted sportsman of the day and also spent time at his Thomasville, Georgia, property. Percy Chubb II, his nephew, was also an accomplished angler who dearly loved fishing the St. Anne. In a letter to his fiancee, Corrine Alsop, written in the 1930s, Percy Chubb II relays the splendor of the St. Anne River, describing a run just upstream from Fosse au Fer, the pool depicted in this watercolor.
"The river..... across from me swirls up against a great stony cliff like hill which rises about a hundred and fifty feet and is curtained with cedar and aspen. It was one of the most beautiful days I have ever known, and as I sat there I almost decided that I liked St. Anne better than Thomasville."
Imbued with the vivid greens and blues most commonly seen in Pleissner's early Wyoming scenes, this vibrant watercolor captures the essence of angling for wild Atlantic salmon on one of North America's most beautiful salmon rivers.
Provenance: Acquired from The Sporting Gallery and Bookshop, Inc., New York, NY by either Percy Chubb or Percy Chubb II
Descended in the Chubb family
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