Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 218 – Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) Mount Baker, Washington (1891) 273 Andy Thomas (b. 1957) Counter Strike (2021) oil on canvas 24 × 32 inches signed lower right: Andy Thomas VERSO Signed, titled, and dated According to the artist, “At the Battle of the Big Hole inMontana, Chief Joseph’s Nez Perce repulsed an early morning surprise attack on his camp and drove the soldiers and militia back across a creek and up a rise. There, the soldiers entrenched themselves as best they could. The enraged Nez Perce kept them pinned down for more than a day. “Here, I depicted a group of men launching a counter-attack to drive back the encirclement. The Nez Perce slipped away when a relief force arrived.” $20,000–30,000