Description

Painting: Oil painting of a river (Mississippi River?) with bluffs. The river is shades of blue and pinkish-purple. There are gray and brown bluffs in the background. There is green land and trees jutting into the water on the right side. The sky is shades of light blue with clouds in shades of pink. It is painted on canvas. The canvas attaches to a wooden stretcher with nails around the edges. There is one wooden wedge or key in the back lower left corner There is no frame. Written in pencil on the back bottom of the stretcher is "410'/32'/12'/304'/348'/60'/72'/62' (bracket around the right side of the numbers)". "67'/250'/130'/75'". "410' ". "280'/200'/72' (bracket around the right side of the nubmers". Written in black ink on the back top of the stretcher is "Painting donated by Arch Grahm, Field Director Minn. Historical Society/Artist Unknown".