214 Evening Landing at Ft. Benton

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Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 25,000.00 USD
Estimated at 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD
Evening Landing at Ft. Benton
Artist: Riley, KennethDate of Birth: 1919-2015
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 25 x 44 inches
Signed: Signed lower right/NAWA and dated 85
Verso:

Fort Benton, Montana, was established in 1847 by two French-American fur traders from St. Louis. It was the terminus of the Upper Missouri River fur trading posts and was the easternmost city on the Mullan Road—completed in 1860— that linked the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Until the transcontinental railroad supplanted it, Fort Benton was one of the most important cities in the American West. As Ken Riley views it in Evening Landing at Ft. Benton, the town is a bustling place, but still, as a city, in its adolescence. The massive steamboats, for example, dwarf the wharfside buildings. It’s quiet at the moment on this placid, pretty evening; the flatboat coming in gently is empty, but ready to take on part of the pile of crated cargo at right.