Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 70 – 90 Montague Dawson (1890–1973) Clipper Ship – Forest Queen oil on canvas 36 × 24 inches signed lower left: Montague Dawson VERSO Label, Vallejo Gallery, Newport Beach, California Label, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Label, Arthur Ackermann & Son, Inc., Chicago, Illinois The clipper ship Forest Queen was built in 1849 by the Southard ship building company located in Richmond, Maine. The ship sailed out of New York and was active in the trans-Atlantic trade for many years. Montague Dawson was inspired to paint the Forest Queen from information he garnered frommen who actually sailed on this ship. PROVENANCE Frost & Reed, London, United Kingdom, 1937 Arthur Ackermann & Son, Inc., Chicago, Illinois Northern Pump Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, gifted to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Sotheby’s, New York, New York, 2014 Private collection, Reno, Nevada $20,000–30,000