The Great Peak (Longs Peak)
Framed: 47 7/8 × 56 × 2 3/4 inches (121.6 × 142.24 × 6.99 cm)
- 220
Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 5–July 31, 2005, no cat.
Born in Sweden, Sandzén immigrated to the United States in 1894 to teach at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where he remained the rest of his life.
To Ethel Greenough (Mrs. Massey) Holmes (1879-1964), Kansas City, MO, 1938;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1938.
“‘Long’s Peak,’ by Birger Sandzen, to Nelson
Gallery,” Kansas City Journal-Post, March
2, 1938, 14 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
“A Brilliant Colorado Scene by Birger Sandzen Is Given to the Art Gallery—Works of Adolf Dehn Attract Much Attention,” Kansas City Star, March 4, 1938, 28 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Luigi Vaiani, ed., “In the Art World: Mrs. Holmes’ Purchase of Sandzen’s Picture for Gallery and Woodcut Society’s Exhibition at Lighton Studio Discussed,” Kansas City Journal-Post, March 6, 1938, 4B (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
“Art Gift to Gallery,” Kansas City Times, March 7, 1938, 3 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado);.
“Birger Sandzen Delights Audience with Informal ‘Chat’ at Gallery,” [March 1938], clipping, NAMA curatorial files.
“Sandzen of Kansas,” Kansas City Star, March 10, 1938, D.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts: Founders and Benefactors (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1940), 23 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 166 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 257 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 254 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 132–33 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzén: An Illustrated Biography (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993), 42 (as Long’s Peak), pl. 45 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 249 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Randall R. Griffey, “Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse,” American Art Review 17 (April 2005), 100 (as Long’s Peak, Colorado).
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 470 – 472, 2: 210.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 182.
