signed & dated; titled & inscribed on the backing verso
“Thunder Bay / with Mr. & Mrs. Verner’s / compliments and best wishes / to Mr. & Mrs. Daniel”.
Reference: See p. 107 of “The Last Buffalo” (Murray; 1984) for an illustration of two similar works from 1886 and 1896, the earlier of which is in the collection of the Glenbow, Calgary, AB.
Note: In reference to these works, Joan Murray writes:
Verner painted the same themes over and over again, but the details were always different. He used his early “Study of Two Indians” to great effect in “Two Indians Observing Canoes”, “Ojibway Indians”, and “Indian Lookout”.
