[Colorado]

[BENT'S FORT, COLORADO TERRITORY]. [COLORADO]: BENT'S FORT, [CA. 1869]

[Colorado]

Pencil on buff paper (10 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.; 396 x 374 mm), inscribed in pencil in the lower right corner: "Bent's Fort. Arkansas River. Colorado Ter. July 13th 186[?]. This trading post built in 1832. Now used as a S.O.M. + Ex station", signed with an interlocking “JFK” monogram, lower right image (at the edge of the grass).

Expertly repaired closed tear, not affecting image.

Provenance:
Lamar, New Encyclopedia Of The American West pp.91, 93; Moore, Bent's Old Fort passim; Trenton & Hassrick, The Rocky Mountains. A Vision For Artists In The Nineteenth Century, pp.210-22; Who Was Who In American Art, 1564-1975 II, p.1825