OGDEN MINTON PLEISSNER | REAPING ALONG WIND RIVER, WYOMING

The Collection of Patrick & Carlyn Duffy
OGDEN MINTON PLEISSNER
1905 - 1983
REAPING ALONG WIND RIVER, WYOMING

signed Pleissner (lower left); also titled Reaping Along Wind River (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 by 36 inches
(61 by 91.5 cm)

Condition Report:
The canvas is unlined and there are frame abrasions at the extreme edges. There is surface cracking most noticeably in the sky, with corresponding areas of lifting to the paint layer and chip losses along the lower right margin. There appear to be a few pindots of possible surface accretion in the tractor at upper left. Under UV: there are a few dots of inpainting in the tractor and in the grass at upper left.

Provenance:
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York

William Macbeth Gallery, New York

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (sold: Christie's, New York, December 3, 1996, lot 116)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale