This series of three large-scale narrative panels depicts an Arctic exploration:
A hunter takes aim from a desolate camp, a musher drives his team through a blizzard, and a sled capsizes on treacherous, broken ice floes. Painted with the direct, graphic clarity required for a travelling fairground, the artist uses a cool palette of blues and whites to evoke the harsh, frozen landscape, rendering the scenes with a robust, illustrative realism. These are not easel paintings but vernacular objects, working artefacts of popular culture designed to thrill and educate a public captivated by the adventure and peril of the race to the poles.
An indistinct stencil monogram is visible on one panel.
The boards are unframed. All show significant wear, scuffing, paint loss, and surface dirt, consistent with their history as functional fairground attractions.
The height of all three is 90cm / 35.5”.
The width of two is 122cm / 48" and the width of the third is 120cm / 47”.
