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THBGeorge Henry Andrews Watercolor and Gouache, The Oregon Trail, 1860
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Watercolor and gouache on paper, 8 x 23.5 in., mounted on board, matted and framed, 15 x 31 in. Signed and dated lower left, "G.H. Andrews 1860."
An iconic western scene depicting what appears to be an infinite line of covered wagons traveling west along the Oregon Trail. The canvas cover of the lead wagon is inscribed, "Oregon."
George Henry Andrews (1816-1898). English engineer, marine painter, watercolorist, and illustrator. Andrews trained as an engineer, but preferred art. From 1840-1850, he exhibited at the Old Water Color Society, and beginning in 1850, at the Royal Academy. At that time the Illustrated London News was in the course of becoming the most successful weekly of the century. In the spring of 1860, the publisher Herbert Ingram decided to visit the US, bringing Andrews as the paper's first Special Artist in North America, to cover the state visit of the Prince of Wales. This is almost certainly when he produced the painting offered here. Ingram lost his life in an excursion steamer collision on Lake Michigan in September, but Andrews accompanied the Prince on the Canadian portion of his royal tour. The Canadian views by Andrews in Illustrated London News in 1860 showed frontier life in Ontario along the Grand Trunk Railway. A second series was published in 1862 as "Sketches of Canada."
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