Karen Gunderson
Approaching High Water

Overall recto
Approaching High Water
Overall recto
ArtistAmerican, born 1943
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Approaching High Water
Date2022
MediumOil on linen
DimensionsCanvas: 82 × 82 × 1 1/2 in. (208.3 × 208.3 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2023.261
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
On view

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ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryN.A.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signature and date incised into the impasto using a bamboo pen, bottom right corner: Gunderson [cursive] / 22
Verso: Inscribed in black paint on stretcher, top left: Gunderson / 22 "Approaching High Water." 82 x 82" oil on canvas [cursive]
Recto: Signature incised into the impasto using a bamboo pen, bottom right corner: Gunderson [cursive]
Verso: Signed in black paint on stretcher, top left: Gunderson [cursive]
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Catalogue raisonnéN.A.

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