Oil on canvas, signed at lower right "L. Pitts," housed in the original Newcomb-Macklin frame, pressed wood and gilded, after a design by Stanford White, retaining the original gilt gallery plaque reading "Source of the Romanche / Lendall Pitts / American Contemporary / Gift of Friends of the Artist." The frame itself is 6 in. wide, the rabbet size is 21.75 x 29.25 in., and the overall dimensions are 32.5 x 40 in.

SS 20.75 x 28.25 in.; DOA 32.5 x 40 in.

Private Collection, Atlanta, Georgia Sothebys, Lot 4ZJW, March 2001 Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1909

The donation of this painting to the museum is described in an article in the October 1909 Bulletin of The Detroit Museum of Art. The author relates "it is this painting which attracted the attention of the critics in many other cities besides Detroit on the occasion of Mr. Pitts' initial exhibition in this country two years ago." A son of Detroit, Lendall Pitts studied in Paris with Jean Paul Laureus and Benjamin Constant. A contemporary claims that Pitts "sought his field in the Swiss and French Alps, and in the phases of nature embodied in thee he has faithfully sought to find himself."

$3,000 - 6,000