The Guide, 1933
signed upper right V. True and dated,
oil on canvas, 32 x 26 inches
Provenance:
private collection, Massachusetts
In 1931, Virginia True, together with four other art instructors at the University of Colorado, established themselves as a collective of regional artists. They called their group The Prospectors. Over the course of the next eleven years, the group exhibited their paintings in twenty two states, winning many prizes. The Guide relates strongly in composition and style to a painting created one year earlier, entitled The Woodchopper. That work won first prize at the Midwestern Artists Exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1935. It is now in the permanent collection of the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.