{"product_id":"wasatch-range-above-salt-lake-city-by-gilbert-munger","title":"Wasatch Range above Salt Lake City by Gilbert Munger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGilbert Munger (American, 1837–1903)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled (Wasatch Range above Salt Lake City), 1878\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOil on board\u003cbr\u003e25½ × 43½ in.\u003cbr\u003eSigned lower right “Gilbert Munger 1878”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis sweeping mountain landscape appears to belong to Gilbert Munger’s important group of views of Utah’s Wasatch Range. Its composition closely parallels his documented 1873 painting \u003cem\u003eWasatch Range above Salt Lake City\u003c\/em\u003e: a dark mountain mass rises at left, brilliant snow-covered peaks stretch across the distance, and water and lowlands form quiet horizontal bands below. That earlier painting has been identified as a view southeast from the vicinity of Salt Lake City, with Mount Olympus at the left.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunger first encountered Utah in 1869 while accompanying Clarence King’s U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. His Western landscapes combined careful observation with dramatic effects of weather and light, qualities especially evident here as a heavy storm cloud gives way to golden illumination across the distant peaks. By 1878 Munger was established in London and continued painting American subjects from his earlier Western studies. That same year King’s monumental \u003cem\u003eSystematic Geology\u003c\/em\u003e was published with ten chromolithographs based on Munger’s paintings and sketches, including views of the Wasatch Mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthonys Fine Art \u0026 Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67614232084716,"sku":null,"price":110000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2013\/1449\/files\/812652264.286491.jpg?v=1790962094","url":"https:\/\/anthonysfineart.com\/products\/wasatch-range-above-salt-lake-city-by-gilbert-munger","provider":"Anthonys Fine Art \u0026 Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}