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Lot 133 • Martin Lewis, Sunflowers, Queensboro Bridge, watercolor, circa 1930. Estimate $6,000 to $9,000.
19th Century
Lot 1
MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE
Edge of the Woods.
Lot 2
JOHN GEORGE BROWN
A Child Hiding in Ambush.
Lot 3
THOMAS COLE
Youth.
Lot 4
ALEXANDER H. WYANT
Storm in the Mountains.
Lot 5
WINCKWORTH ALLAN GAY
Cohasset Landscape.
Lot 6
EDGAR ALGERNON JOSSELYN
Sunset River Scene with Fisherman.
Lot 7
JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN
Festiniog (Over the Narrowest Narrow Gauge).
Lot 8
IMOGENE MORRELL
Rocky Coast.
Lot 9
IMOGENE MORRELL
Sailing Ship at Sea.
Lot 10
CONRAD WISE CHAPMAN
Bathers at Low Tide, the Beach at Trouville.
Lot 11
CONRAD WISE CHAPMAN
The Beach at Trouville.
Lot 12
JOHN LA FARGE
Boy Casting off a Hawk.
Lot 13
HARVEY ELLIS
Gleaner.
Lot 14
AMERICAN SCHOOL
Two Prize Cow oils.
Lot 16
CHARLES ETHAN PORTER
Still Life with Flowers.
Lot 17
GEORGE COCHRAN LAMBDIN
Roses.
Lot 18
RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK
Two watercolors with oil.
Lot 19
RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK
Three landscape oils.
Lot 20
RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK
Night Scene.
Lot 21
RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK
Landscape at Twilight.
Lot 22
RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK
Indian Encampment.
Lot 23
R. J. MONTAGUE
Mason's Island.
Lot 24
ARTHUR B. DAVIES
Mountainous Landscape.
Lot 25
ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER
Seascape with Rocks.
Lot 26
EDMUND DARCH LEWIS
Point Judith Light, seen from the north, Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Lot 27
WILLIAM ST. JOHN HARPER
Collection of approximately 20 pen and ink, pencil and chalk drawings, watercolors and oil studies.
Lot 28
WILLIAM BRADFORD
Sand Dunes, Bradley Beach, New Jersey.
Lot 29
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS
Morning Surf.
Lot 30
FREDERICK STUART CHURCH
The Three Mermaids.
Lot 31
JOHN LA FARGE
Samoan Girls Dancing the Seated Siva Dance with Pantomime and Song, Night Effect, Samoa, 1890.
Lot 32
JULIAN ALDEN WEIR
Portrait of Anna (the Artist’s Wife).
Lot 33
ARTHUR B. DAVIES
Nude.
Lot 34
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP
Reclining Nude in a Landscape.
Lot 35
ALBERT HERTER
Woman in a Blue Dress in a Wooded Landscape.
Lot 36
LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
Two Figures in anArched Stairway, Venice
Lot 37
FREDERICK MACMONNIES
Pan of Rohallion.
Early 1900s
Lot 38
EDWARD HOPPER
Crucifixion Scene.
Lot 39
EDWARD HOPPER
Woman and Child.
Lot 40
EDWARD HOPPER
Arab Beggar.
Lot 41
CHARLES MARION RUSSELL
Indian Head.
Lot 42
LOUIS CHARLES MOELLER
An Argument.
Lot 43
GEORGE OVERBURY "POP" HART
Book Stall, Holland.
Lot 44
GEORGE OVERBURY "POP" HART
Group of 5 drawings.
Lot 45
FRANK MYERS BOGGS
Paris from the Seine.
Lot 46
WALTER RUSSELL
Brooklyn Bridge and East River Harbor.
Lot 47
JOSEPH PENNELL
Sunrise over New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty.
Lot 48
ARTHUR B. DAVIES
California Coast.
Lot 49
CHARLES WARREN EATON
Sky Sunset Study.
Lot 50
REYNOLDS BEAL
New London Harbor.
Lot 51
EDWARD POTTHAST
Canoeing.
Lot 52
EDWARD POTTHAST
Church, Normandy, France.
Lot 53
EDWARD POTTHAST
Woodland Scene.
Lot 54
Edward Potthast
The Grand Canyon.
Lot 55
EDWARD POTTHAST
Landscape with a Farm at Twilight.
Lot 56
LOUIS EILSHEMIUS
Farm Landscape.
Lot 57
LOUIS EILSHEMIUS
Seascape with a Lighthouse.
Lot 58
LOUIS EILSHEMIUS
Group of 5 pen and ink drawings.
Lot 59
ANNIE GOODING SYKES
Still Life with Pansies.
Lot 60
OSCAR BLUEMNER
Group of 4 marine drawings.
1910s & 1920s
Lot 61
OSCAR BLUEMNER
Group of 4 landscape pencil drawings.
Lot 62
OSCAR BLUEMNER
Harlem River, Washington Heights.
Lot 63
JOHN MARIN
Summer.
Lot 64
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Cityscape.
Lot 65
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Two watercolors with ink.
Lot 66
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Fisherman.
Lot 67
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Faces in the Crowd.
Lot 68
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Two watercolors with ink of Bathers.
Lot 69
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Group of 5 watercolors of Isadora Duncan.
Lot 70
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Group of three abstract pencil drawings of Isadora Duncan.
Lot 71
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Untitled (Human Mountain).
Lot 72
MAX WEBER
Reclined Figure.
Lot 73
MAX WEBER
Mask.
Lot 74
ELIE NADELMAN
Portrait of a Woman.
Lot 75
GERTUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY
Bust of a Boy.
Lot 76
HENRY JAMES ALBRIGHT
Draped Standing Nude at Water's Edge under a Willow Tree.
Lot 77
GUSTAVE ADOLPH WIEGAND
Forest Path.
Lot 78
EMIL CARLSEN
Landscape (Color Study).
Lot 79
CHARLES WARREN EATON
Lake Como, Italy.
Lot 80
JONAS LIE
Fishing Boats.
Lot 81
ETHEL MARS
Sardiniers, Breton.
Lot 82
MAURICE STERNE
Balinese Women.
Lot 83
CHARLES BURCHFIELD
Two geometric studies.
Lot 84
CHARLES BURCHFIELD
Two pencil still life drawings.
Lot 85
ELLIOTT DAINGERFIELD
Study of Two Male Nudes.
Lot 86
CHARLES DEMUTH
Provincetown.
Lot 87
ARTHUR B. DAVIES
View of a Town on a River.
Lot 88
HAYLEY LEVER
An Ocean Liner at Dock.
Lot 89
RUTH TEMPLE ANDERSON
Fulton and Broadway, New York.
Lot 90
GLENN O. COLEMAN
Two gouaches.
Lot 91
JOSEPH STELLA
Woman in Profile on a Balcony.
Lot 92
WALT KUHN
Bar-room Scene ("Lady Lil").
Lot 93
GEORGE LUKS
Reading.
Lot 94
JAMES MOORE PRESTON
Group of 4 charcoal drawings.
Lot 95
LAURA COOMBS HILLS
Still Life with Peonies.
Lot 96
KATHERINE SHUBERT-KUNIYOSHI SCHMIDT
Still Life with Pears.
Lot 97
JOHN GRAHAM
Still Life with Lemons.
Lot 98
EDWIN WALTER DICKINSON
Nude, Head First, Prone.
Lot 99
BORIS LOVET-LORSKI
Nude Study.
Lot 100
JOHN GRABACH
Study of Male Model.
Lot 101
JOHN GRABACH
Study of a Male Model.
Lot 102
MORGAN RUSSELL
Woman in Repose.
Lot 103
MORGAN RUSSELL
Still Life Study.
Lot 104
JOSEPH STELLA
Color Study: Flowers and Sun Rays.
Lot 105
HARRY LESLIE HOFFMAN
Bermuda Coastline #13.
Lot 106
HARRY LESLIE HOFFMAN
Bermuda Coast.
Lot 107
HARRY LESLIE HOFFMAN
Two oils.
Lot 108
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Two watercolors.
Lot 109
ABRAHAM WALKOWITZ
Three watercolors of Provincetown.
Lot 110
THOMAS MCGLYNN
Eucalyptus Trees.
Lot 111
JANE PETERSON
Twilight Landscape.
Lot 112
HILAIRE HILER
Théoule.
Lot 113
JOHN GRAHAM
Portrait of McDougal.
Lot 114
JOSEPH STELLA
Portrait of a Man.
Lot 115
GEORGE GERSHWIN
La Belle Hayes.
Lot 116
ALFRED H. MAURER
Young Girl in Blue.
Lot 117
ALFRED H. MAURER
Girl in a Green Coat.
Lot 118
MAX WEBER
Man's Head: Profile.
Lot 119
ARTHUR B. DAVIES
Models, Dancing.
Lot 120
WILLIAM SOMMER
Three Figures in a Landscape.
Lot 121
WARREN WHEELOCK
Young Woman with Bouquet.
Lot 122
CHAIM GROSS
Girl in Kimono.
1930s & 1940s
Lot 123
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Tiger Lilies.
Lot 124
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Moonlit House.
Lot 125
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Farm Landscape.
Lot 126
BERNARD GUSSOW
Two watercolors.
Lot 127
GEORGINA KLITGAARD
Woodstock.
Lot 128
ANTHONY THIEME
Old Mill, Storrs.
Lot 129
LOUIS RIBAK
Plowing the Field.
Lot 130
GUSTAVE CIMIOTTI, JR.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Lot 131
GEORGE LAURENCE NELSON
Kent Falls, Summertime.
Lot 132
HAYLEY LEVER
Mount Vernon, New York.
Lot 133
MARTIN LEWIS
Sunflowers, Queensboro Bridge.
Lot 134
DONG KINGMAN
Truck Yard.
Lot 135
YVONNE LEDUC PRYOR
Shut Down.
Lot 136
WILLIAM SHARP
View from the East River, 24th Street, New York.
Lot 137
WILLIAM SHARP
Park Place and Washington, New York.
Lot 138
JAMES DAUGHERTY
Whalers.
Lot 139
BEULAH STEVENSON
Clam Gatherers.
Lot 140
JOHANN BERTHELSEN
Central Park.
Lot 141
JOHANN BERTHELSEN
Washington Square Arch.
Lot 142
JOHANN BERTHELSEN
Trinity Church from Wall Street.
Lot 143
HOWARD COOK
Market Scene, Taxco.
Lot 144
PEGGY BACON
Study for Morning Exercises.
Lot 145
MARTHA WALTER
Mosque Interior (Africa No. 67).
Lot 146
WALTER FARNDON
Sailboats in a Cove.
Lot 148
SEARS GALLAGHER
Cliffs, Seacrest, Massachusetts.
Lot 149
SYDNEY M. LAURENCE
Chilkat Indian Canoe.
Lot 150
BERNARD KARFIOL
In Green Chair.
Lot 151
BERNARD KARFIOL
Group of 8 drawings.
Lot 152
PAUL CADMUS
Portrait of Webster Aitken.
Lot 153
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW
Portrait of Mrs. Oliver Jennings (Mary Brewster Jennings).
Lot 154
THERESA BERNSTEIN
Church Congregation.
Lot 155
THERESA BERNSTEIN
Still Life with Flowers.
Lot 156
WILL BARNET
Child Reaching (Child in an Interior).
Lot 157
WILL BARNET
Portrait of Seymour Lipton.
Lot 158
HILLA REBAY
Women at the Beach.
Lot 159
HILLA REBAY
Two pencil drawings of the Cotton Club, Harlem.
Lot 160
WILLIAM SOMMER
Tame Crow.
Lot 161
WILLIAM SOMMER
Two Dancers.
Lot 162
MILTON AVERY
Nursing Baby #8.
Lot 163
MILTON AVERY
Rocky Coast.
Lot 164
JOSEPH STELLA
Mountain Landscape.
Lot 165
MERCEDES MATTER
Cubist Nude.
Lot 166
LUIGI LUCIONI
The Capodimonte Cup.
Lot 167
MARGARET BRASSLER KANE
Female Torso.
Lot 168
SAUL BAIZERMAN
Lady of Leisure.
Lot 169
WILLIAM MCGREGOR PAXTON
Standing Nude.
Lot 170
JOHN STORRS
Portrait of a French Girl.
Lot 171
DAVID BURLIUK
Portrait of Raphael Soyer.
Lot 172
REGINALD MARSH
Portrait Studies of John Sloan.
Lot 174
GUY C. WIGGINS
The Empire State, New York.
Lot 176
ERNEST FIENE
June Morning, Maine.
Lot 177
CLEVE GRAY
Mountainous Landscape.
Lot 178
HOWARD COOK
Morning at Hondo.
Lot 179
OGDEN M. PLEISSNER
Anti-Aircraft Gun Position, Elmendorf Field.
Lot 180
DAVID BURLIUK
Two Men Resting by the Woods in a Mountainous Landscape.
Lot 181
GEORGE RENOUARD
Group of 5 watercolors.
Lot 182
ALEXANDER FARNHAM
Break in the Clouds, Tinicum, Pennsylvania.
Lot 183
LOUIS WOLCHONOK
Harbor Scene.
Lot 184
VACLAV VYTLACIL
Sparkill, New York.
Lot 185
DONG KINGMAN
Park Scene.
Lot 186
NICOLAI CIKOVSKY
Interior Scene with a Rocker at a Window.
Lot 187
NICOLAI CIKOVSKY
Summer Garden Still Life with Flowers and Fruit.
Lot 188
KYRA MARKHAM
Linen and Glass.
Lot 189
JOHN SENNHAUSER
Untitled.
Lot 190
DWINELL GRANT
"Contrathemis", Frame 2409.
Lot 191
JOHN MARIN
The Circus I.
Lot 192
HENRY MILLER
Abstract Composition (Standing Figure).
Lot 193
HANS BURKHARDT
Three Figures.
Lot 194
CHAIM GROSS
Female Acrobat.
Lot 195
CHAIM GROSS
Mother and Child.
1950s & 1960s
Lot 196
EUGENE BERMAN
Two drawings.
Lot 197
EUGENE BERMAN
Two drawings.
Lot 198
GERSHON BENJAMIN
Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Lot 199
ROBERT GWATHMEY
Clearing.
Lot 200
AUGUST MOSCA
Cubist Nude.
Lot 201
WILL BARNET
Tom.
Lot 202
WILL BARNET
The Wave.
Lot 203
ATTILIO SALEMME
Study for "Verge on the Wonderful".
Lot 204
BYRON BROWNE
Abstract Still Life.
Lot 205
BYRON BROWNE
Nocturne.
Lot 206
WILLIAM THON
Roman Forms.
Lot 207
ROLPH SCARLETT
Two works on paper.
Lot 208
CHARIMON VON WIEGAND
Collage #107 Ascending.
Lot 209
JOHN VON WICHT
Untitled.
Lot 210
JOHN LEVEE
Untitled.
Lot 211
JOHN HULTBERG
Roofs.
Lot 212
STANLEY MELTZOFF
Untitled (Pipeline).
Lot 213
NELL BLAINE
Still Life with Flowers.
Lot 214
NELL BLAINE
Still Life with Pitcher.
Lot 215
NELL BLAINE
Mykonos.
Lot 216
LOUISA MATTHIASDOTTIR
Model in a Butterfly Chair.
Lot 217
NELL BLAINE
Self Portrait.
Lot 218
NELL BLAINE
Dilys Reading.
Lot 219
NELL BLAINE
Santorini.
Lot 220
NELL BLAINE
Beach at Malcesine.
Lot 221
NELL BLAINE
View from Tarr and Wonson's, I (Gloucester).
Lot 222
NELL BLAINE
Gloucester.
Lot 223
FAIRFIELD PORTER
A Shaded Garden Walkway.
Lot 224
LEON KROLL
Tree Study, Central Park, New York.
Lot 225
FANNIE SAPERSTEIN
Two watercolors.
Lot 226
VACLAV VYTLACIL
Mountain Landscape, Colorado Springs.
Lot 227
DAVID BURLIUK
Surrealist Portrait of Leo Manso.
Lot 228
JANE FREILICHER
The Straw Hat.
Lot 229
BEN SHAHN
Accordion Player.
Lot 230
MAX WEBER
Bust of a Man.
Lot 231
MAX WEBER
Woman Holding a Mirror.
Lot 232
LEON KELLY
Damas en Budoar.
Lot 233
RAPHAEL SOYER
Seated Model in the Studio.
Lot 234
RAPHAEL SOYER
Seated Nude.
Lot 235
CHAIM GROSS
Kneeling Female Nude.
Lot 236
JOHN WILDE
Self-Portrait.
Lot 237
CHARLOTTE HOWARD
Study in Black, White, and Red.
Lot 238
BRUNO LUCCHESI
Two terracotta relief sculptures.
Lot 239
BRUNO LUCCHESI
Standing Bather with Ponytail.
Lot 240
WARREN BRANDT
Morning with Tina.
Lot 241
STANLEY MELTZOFF
Birth of Autumn.
Lot 242
DONG KINGMAN
Central Park, New York.
Lot 243
PAUL RESIKA
The Hill at Amity.
Lot 244
PAUL STARRETT SAMPLE
Another Day.
Lot 245
GERSHON BENJAMIN
Winter Trees V.
Lot 247
JOSEPH CORNELL
Monkey.
Lot 248
EUGENE BERMAN
The Sphinx.
Lot 249
LESTER JOHNSON
Group of 4 ink drawings.
Lot 250
WILLIAM ZORACH
Upraised Hands.
Lot 251
CHARMION VON WIEGAND
Collage #264 The Mountain Way.
Lot 252
HAROLD ROME
Joe and Judy Discussing the Sad State of the Theatre.
Lot 253
ROLPH SCARLETT
Untitled.
Lot 254
KARL SCHRAG
Living Water.
1970s & Later
Lot 255
VACLAV VYTLACIL
Two Crucifixion studies.
Lot 256
HERBERT KALLEM
Three Dancing Figures.
Lot 257
WILLIAM DICKEY KING
Standing Woman.
Lot 258
GERSHON BENJAMIN
A Couple on a Boat at Sea.
Lot 259
FLETCHER MARTIN
Two works on paper.
Lot 260
JOHN B. LEAR
Urn with a "U".
Lot 261
ROBERT BLISS
Two oils.
Lot 262
ROBERT BLISS
Baseball Field.
Lot 263
ROBERT BLISS
Beach Scene (Nocturne).
Lot 264
PEGGY BACON
Poor Old Farm.
Lot 265
WILL BARNET
By the Sea.
Lot 266
WILL BARNET
Study for "Old Man's Afternoon".
Lot 267
WILL BARNET
Self Portrait.
Lot 268
WILL BARNET
Cat.
Lot 269
HOWARD RACKLIFFE
Arabesque.
Lot 270
MELVIN SCHULER
Untitled (Wall Construction #29).
Lot 271
WERNER DREWES
Untitled (Collage #125).
Lot 272
RICHARD HAAS
The Potter Building.
Lot 273
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Figure Seated on a Porch.
Lot 274
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Group of 4 pencil drawings.
Lot 275
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Group of 5 drawings.
Lot 276
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Group of 4 figural drawings.
Lot 277
FAIRFIELD PORTER
Leon.
Lot 278
LELAND BELL
Self-Portrait.
Lot 279
ROMARE BEARDEN
Beach, St. Martin.
Lot 280
WOLF KAHN
Lucy Bump's Barn.
Lot 281
FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM
Back of Wattles' Cottage, Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
Lot 282
DOROTHY DEHNER
Polychrome Composition.
Lot 283
WILLIAM C. BARRON
Dead Birch.
Lot 284
WILLIAM C. BARRON
Rest Stop.
Lot 285
WILLIAM C. BARRON
Evening Walk.
Lot 286
WILLIAM C. BARRON
Wet Summer.
Lot 287
WILLIAM C. BARRON
Quiet Pasture.
Lot 288
WILLIAM C. BARRON
Fall Fields.
Lot 289
JOREEN BENBENEK
Untitled (Maine Harbor).
Lot 290
HANSEN MULFORD
Where the Juniper River Enters Lake George, New York.
Lot 291
JAMES D. BUTLER
Damp River Air.
Lot 292
RICHARD BUNKALL
Cityscape.
Lot 293
WILLIAM HERMAN
Statuary Building.
Lot 294
WILLIAM HERMAN
Two acrylics on panel.
Lot 295
WALTER HATKE
Two oils on linen.
Lot 296
PETER W. ROGERS
Bascule Bridge.
Lot 297
WENDELL CASTLE
Sea Clock.
Lot 298
GIL BEAMSLEY
Pleasant Street.
Lot 299
GIL BEAMSLEY
Farm on Rich Road.
Lot 300
JOSEPH KEIFFER
Somesville.
Lot 301
CHUCK FORSMAN
Teton Remains.
Lot 302
ALTOON SULTAN
Winter Scene.
Lot 303
ALTOON SULTAN
The Mill Pond, Pawlet, Vermont.
Lot 304
MAX GINSBURG
Waiting for the Bus.
Lot 305
PENELOPE JENCKS
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Lot 306
BO BARTLETT
Study of Jo.
Lot 307
RICHARD MACDONALD
I Am.
Lot 308
DANIEL MAFFIA
Self Portrait.
Lot 309
DANIEL MAFFIA
Untitled (Kneeling Nude in Flower Garden).
Lot 310
KEITH MAYERSON
River Phoenix.
Lot 311
JOHN ALEXANDER
Monkey Claus.
Lot 312
DANIEL CHAFFEE
Major Circulation.
Lot 313
DANIEL CHAFFEE
Wind Shear.
Lot 314
JOHN BROSIO
Gust Front.
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19th Century
Martin johnson heade
Edge of the Woods.
Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1860. 220x295 mm; 8¾x11⅝ inches. Inscribed “29” in pencil, upper right recto.
Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York, with the label; private collection, New Jersey.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
John george brown
A Child Hiding in Ambush.
Oil on board, 1867. 212x150 mm; 8⅜x5⅞ inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New York; thence by descent to current owner, Florida.
The present work is a small version of a larger 1866-67 oil on canvas, now in a private collection. Brown (1831-1913), the British-born American painter renowned for his genre scenes, customarily painted small paintings with similar themes and titles, not as studies for a larger work but as separate works to meet popular demand. His paintings of both childhood mischievousness and innocence were highly sought after by collectors. The model in the current work also appears in Children of the Forest, an 1866 oil on canvas sold at Sotheby’s, New York, March 28, 2018, lot 134.
We wish to thank Martha Hoppin for her assistance researching this lot.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Thomas cole
Youth.
Oil on canvas, circa 1839-40. 265x210 mm; 10¼x8¼ inches.
This work is likely a study for the red robed figure on the boat crossing the river in Cole’s (1801-1848) oil painting The Voyage of Life: Youth, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Provenance: Private collection, Birmingham, Michigan.
Exhibited: “Side by Side”, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, October 5-December 15, 1985, page 11, catalogue number 9.
The Voyage of Life is a series of four paintings created by Cole in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life. The paintings, Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, depict a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the mid-19th-century American wilderness. In each painting the voyager rides the boat on the River of Life accompanied by a guardian angel. The landscape, each reflecting one of the four seasons of the year, plays a significant role in conveying the story. With each installment the boat’s direction of travel is reversed from the previous picture. In childhood, the infant glides from a dark cave into a rich, green landscape. As a youth, the boy takes control of the boat and aims for a shining castle in the sky. In manhood, the adult relies on prayer and religious faith to sustain him through rough waters and a threatening landscape. Finally, the man becomes old, and the angel guides him to heaven across the waters of eternity.
The Voyage of Life was well received by both critics and the public; the United States was experiencing the religious revival sometimes known as the Second Great Awakening. The four paintings were reproduced as engravings by James Smillie (1807–1885) after Cole’s death and the engravings widely distributed in time for the Third Great Awakening, further bestowing the series the great prestige and popular acclaim it retains today.
Estimate
$30,000 – $50,000
Alexander h. wyant
Storm in the Mountains.
Oil on canvas. 158x218 mm; 6¼x8½ inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Estate of Virginia M. Zabriskie.
Wyant (1836-1892) was an American landscape painter. His early works belonged to the Hudson River School, with its direct pastoral narrative, but evolved into the moodier and more shadowy Tonalism. After a stroke which paralyzed his right arm, he taught himself to paint with his left. Born in Ohio, Wyant worked primarily in New York following his training, as well as several years in Cincinnati and Europe. After his marriage in 1880, he began to spend most of his time in Keene Valley, New York. He moved in 1889 to Arkville, New York (in the Catskills). He frequently painted in the Adirondacks, which is likely represented in this view, as well as in the Catskills. Wyant was only moderately appreciated during his lifetime, though after his death his works were eagerly sought for and are now in museums including the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville and the Dayton Art Institute.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
Winckworth allan gay
Cohasset Landscape.
Oil on canvas, 1864. 305x458 mm; 12x18 inches. Signed and inscribed “Cohasset” and dated in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Florida.
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Edgar algernon josselyn
Sunset River Scene with Fisherman.
Oil on canvas, 1881. 200x255 mm; 8x10 inches. Initialed in oil, lower left recto, and signed and dated in pencil on the stretcher, verso.
Provenance: Alexander Gallery, New York; private collection, New Jersey.
Estimate
$1,000 – $1,500
John henry twachtman
Festiniog (Over the Narrowest Narrow Gauge).
Oil on canvas, 1879. 200x250 mm; 8x10 inches. Incised with the artist's signature and date, lower left recto, and inscribed in oil, verso.
The current work is an early illustration design by Twachtman (1853-1902), an American painter who became best known for his impressionist landscapes, for Over the Narrowest Narrow Gauge, by William H. Bishop, which appeared in Scribner's Monthly, volume xviii, page 605.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Published: Lisa N. Peters, John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné, Greenwich Historical Society, 2021 (jhtwachtman.org), number OP.320.
The Ffestiniog Railway in Wales runs from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffesiniog on a single track. The line was constructed between 1833 and 1836 to transport raw materials to the port in Porthmadog. The introduction of steam locomotives and passenger carriages in the 1860s allowed the railway to become more efficient and appealing to regional tourism. Operations closed on the line in August 1946, though shortly thereafter, groups have been active in restoration of the railway, slowly reopening each station.
Estimate
$5,000 – $8,000
Imogene morrell
Rocky Coast.
Oil on board, circa 1870. 450x650 mm; 17½x25½ inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, California.
Morrell (1828-1908) was born in Massachusetts and trained in Newark, New Jersey, and New York. She worked in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., and was close friends with the American academic painter Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922).
Estimate
$1,500 – $2,500
Imogene morrell
Sailing Ship at Sea.
Oil on canvas. 610x455 mm; 24x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Arizona.
Morrell (1828-1908) was born in Massachusetts and trained in Newark, New Jersey, and New York. She worked in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., and was close friends with the American academic painter Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837-1922).
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Conrad wise chapman
Bathers at Low Tide, the Beach at Trouville.
Oil on panel, circa 1878. 140x220 mm; 5½x8¾ inches.
Provenance: Christie’s, New York, March 9, 2007, sale 1807, lot 61; private collection, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
Conrad wise chapman
The Beach at Trouville.
Oil on panel, 1878. 140x220 mm; 5½x8¾ inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, with the label; private collection, New York.
Estimate
$3,000 – $5,000
John la farge
Boy Casting off a Hawk.
Watercolor and gouache over pencil on paper, circa 1884-85. 134x121 mm; 5¼x4¾ inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto.
Provenance: Moore’s Art Gallery, New York, with a partial label; private collection, New Jersey; Henry B. Holt, Essex Fells, New Jersey; Stephen M. Lovette, Washington, D.C.; William Vareika Fine Arts, Ltd., Newport, Rhode Island; private collection, Massachusetts; private collection, Chicago.
Exhibited: Moore’s Art Gallery, New York, March 26-27, 1885; “John La Farge (1835-1910) American Artistic Genius and Renaissance Man,” William Vareika Fine Arts, Ltd., Newport, Rhode Island, August 28-November 30, 2009.
Published: Yarnall, “New Insights on John La Farge and Photography,” The American Art Journal, volume XIX, number 2, 1987, page 73 (illustrated).
Many of the works in the Moore’s Art Gallery, New York, auction in 1885 were replicas of pictures that La Farge had sold the previous year in his forced sale at the auctioneers Ortgies & Co., New York. The artist considered making copies both a substitute for keeping works that he did not really want to sell and as a potential future source of income. The current work is based on a watercolor sold in 1884 at Ortgies & Co. (W. 1880.14) that dates from 1880 according to the auction catalogue. Both are based on drawings executed around 1865 as La Farge worked on illustrations for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Skeleton in Armor, a ballad set in Newport, Rhode Island. The backdrop represents Brenton’s Cove, Newport, prominently featured in the poem. La Farge’s other drawings of the subject are now in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
Estimate
$5,000 – $8,000
Harvey ellis
Gleaner.
Oil on canvas, 1882. 370x460 mm; 14¾x18 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower center recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Born in Rochester, New York, Ellis (1852-1904) was an architect, painter and furniture designer, now best remembered for his work in the American Arts and Crafts movement. He worked in Rochester, New York; Utica, New York; St. Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Joseph, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri and Syracuse, New York. Ellis’s path and that of Gustav Stickley (1858-1942), the de facto leader of the American Arts and Crafts movement, eventually crossed, for Ellis, the president of the Rochester Arts and Crafts Society, was in charge of installing Stickley’s famous, large 1903 Arts and Crafts exhibition in its Rochester venue, the Mechanics Institute. Shortly after that Ellis moved to Syracuse, New York, to join the expanding architecture department of Stickley’s United Crafts organization, where he would become responsible for designing much of the “golden age” of Stickley’s furniture.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
American school
Two Prize Cow oils.
Prize Cow, 1877. 322x400 mm; 12½x15¾ inches. Signed “G.A. McKinstry” and dated in oil, lower right recto * Lady Forrest, circa 1880. 307x433 mm; 12⅛x17 inches. Inscribed in oil, lower left recto, and signed “by G.A. McKinstry” in oil, lower right recto. Both on canvas.
Provenance: Private collection, Florida.
Estimate
$2,000 – $3,000
Charles ethan porter
Still Life with Flowers.
Oil on canvas board. 350x397 mm; 14x15¾ inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: The Anthony and Davida Artis Collection of African-American Fine Art, Flint, Michigan; private collection, Chicago.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Porter (1847-1923) was a noted still life and floral painter. Porter was active from 1865 to 1915, both in New York and Hartford. In 1869, he was one of the first African Americans to study at the National Academy in New York. He later settled in Hartford where he befriended his neighbor, the famous author Mark Twain. Around 1881, after raising $1,000 from auctioning his paintings, Porter moved to Paris, where for approximately two years he enrolled at the École Nationale Superiéure des Arts Décoratifs before studying at the Académie Julian. While he unsuccessfully attempted to show his work at the Salon, his still life paintings were infused with a realism greatly influenced by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and by his experimentation with plein air painting.
Estimate
$8,000 – $12,000
