Lot 146: Magnus Colcord Heurlin (1895-1986) Thompson Pass 20 x 47in overall: 24 x 51in

Magnus Colcord Heurlin
Thompson Pass
signed 'C. Heurlin-' (lower right), signed, inscribed and dedicated 'C. Heurlin/Fairbanks' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
20 x 47in
overall: 24 x 51in

Footnotes

• Provenance
  The artist.
  Collection of H. Willard Nagley II, Anchorage, Alaska, gift from the above.
  Thence by descent to the present owner, Washington.
  
  The present work is a study for one of fifteen murals created for the 1967 Alaska Centennial Exposition in Fairbanks at the Pioneer Museum to commemorate the Gold Rush and the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. The murals, dramatically displayed in a circular room, illustrate the hard scrabble lives of gold miners and the settlement of Alaska.