Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 229 – 288 Kenneth Riley (1919–2015) Bodmer oil on board 24 × 20 inches signed lower right: Kenneth Riley VERSO Label, Buffalo Trail Fine Art Galleries, Jackson Hole, Wyoming Label, The Vantage Collection of AmericanWestern Art, Dallas, Texas In 1833, the artist Karl Bodmer signed on with German Prince Maximilian to travel first by steamer and the keelboat to Fort McKenzie on the upper Missouri River. Their purpose was to study the land and the native people of this largely unexplored region. Biographer Susan HallstenMcGarry wrote, “Riley used Bodmer’s portrait of Piegan Chief Iron Shirt as a resource.… However, as in all his work, Riley expands on the human interaction of the explorers and their subjects, bringing them his personal excitement in imagining the energy that would have filled the room as the artist captured a likeness for posterity.” $50,000–75,000