Belmore Browne (1880-1954)
Lake Louise, Rising Clouds
signed 'Belmore Browne' (lower right) and signed again and titled (on the original backing board affixed on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 x 40 in.
framed 34 1/2 x 44 1/2 in.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Len Braarud Fine Art, Le Conner, Washington.
William R. Hewlett Trust, Palo Alto, California.
Estate of Jeffrey M. Bradford.

The painting is lined and the stretcher bars are replaced. Stable craquelure throughout. Under UV light examination, a 2 x 14 in. scattered area of retouch in the sky upper right with some other more minor spots in the sky and upper center. A scattered 3 in. and a scattered 1 in. vertical line of retouch in the water lower left center. A 1/2 x 2 in. area of retouch upper right. A few other spots of retouch in the left and right centers and throughout. No further condition issues to report.

In a gilt over red clay bole and gesso carved frame.