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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
WALTER L. GREENESTORM KING. Circa 1930. 40 1/2x26 3/4 inches. Latham Litho & Ptg. Co., Long Island City. Condition B+: minor restoration and overpainting in margins. In the Hudson River Valley, an area already rife with lore, Storm King looms large both physically and psychologically. For centuries sailors considered the mountain the home of "local spirits" who threatened the safety of their ships with large thunderbolts. However, among Dutch settlers the shape of the mountain looked like a giant pat of butter and they consequently refered to it as "Boterberg". It wasn't until a minor romantic poet, Nathaniel Parker Willis, took offence to that very un-romantic Dutch appellation that the mountain was given the name "Storm King". Greene's image palys with the connotations associated with this later name by emphasizing the dramatic placement and stature of the mountain as it looms over the river with a train speeding along in the foreground.
