Big Salmon Pool

Provenance

The artist

Family of G. Macculloch Miller, commissioned from above

Estate of Flora Whitney Miller, from above

[With] The Sporting Gallery and Bookshop, New York, New York

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 28, 1987, lot 365, from estate of Flora Whitney Miller

Private collection, Massachusetts

Sale, Skinner Auctions, Marlborough, Massachusetts, May 21, 2021, lot 62

Note: Flora Whitney Miller (1897–1986) was the daughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whitney and was a great collector and patron of the arts. In 1927, she married her second husband G. Macculloch Miller. This work was commissioned from the artist by the Miller family and depicts the York River on Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, one of the most desirable locales for Atlantic salmon fishing.