Lot 48: Joshua Shaw (1776-1860)

The Coming of the White Man
signed and dated '1850. J.Shaw.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 x 36 in. (63.5 x 91.4 cm.)

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art and elsewhere, Smithsonian Institution, The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, March 15, 1991-January 12, 1992, no. 5.

J.G. Sweeney, Masterpieces of Western American Art, New York, 1991, pp. 6, 16, illustrated.
W.H. Truettner, ed., exhibition catalogue, The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 74-76, fig. 63, illustrated.

The Elisabeth Waldo-Dentzel Collection, Northridge, California.
Gerry Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"The English-born Shaw was persuaded to emigrate to the United States by Benjamin West, the prominent American expatriate artist living in London. Arriving in America in 1817, he settled in Philadelphia where he established a reputation as one of the nation's first landscape painters. He frequently depicted the arrival of the first white explorers in the New World." (J.G. Sweeney, Masterpieces of Western American Art, New York, 1991, p. 16)