Lot 636: Orlando Rouland (American, 1871-1945), Guided by Stars, 1916, Signed "Orlando Rouland" l.l., identified on labels affixed to the revers

Orlando Rouland (American, 1871-1945)

Guided by Stars, 1916
Signed "Orlando Rouland" l.l., identified on labels affixed to the reverse.
Oil on cradled panel, 36 x 27 in. (91.4 x 68.6 cm), framed.
Condition: Minor retouch, craquelure.

Provenance: Through the artist's estate to the family of the present owner, c. 1970.

Literature: "In the Galleries," The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine And Applied Art, Volume 58, June 1916, No. 232 (John Lane Company, 1916), p. cxxxiii-cxxxv (illus.); Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits and Landscapes by Orlando Rouland [Exhibition Catalog], The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 2 to April 30, 1917, no. 21; Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists [Exhibition Catalog], City Art Museum, Saint Louis, September 15 to October 31, 1920, no. 139; George H. Cobham, "Their Great Record of the Old West," Think Magazine, May 1952, Volume 18, No. 5, p. 18-19; Lorinda Munson Bryant, American Pictures and Their Painters (Kessinger Publishing, 2007), pp. 284, 286-88.

Exhibitions: Third Annual Exhibition, Allied Artists of America, May 2 to May 25, 1916; Loan Collection of Portraits and Landscapes by Orlando Rouland, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 2 to April 30, 1917, no. 21; Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, City Art Museum, Saint Louis, September 15 to October 31, 1920, no. 139, Art Center Galleries, 1923; St. Louis Museum, Gold Medal, 1929; St. Louis Museum, Gold Medal, 1934; Artists of the Old West, The Benefit Committee of the New York Women's Bible Society, Near East Foundation, New York, April 10 to 22, 1950; Artists of the Old West, The Benefit Committee of the Near East Foundation, Near East Foundation, New York, April 14 to 25, 1952; Western Art (sponsored by Greenwich Savings Bank), 1976.