Lot 58
American School, 19th Century
Estimate
$2,000 - $3,000

Sold for $7,560

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
American School, 19th Century
Three Graces with Large Canary
oil and watercolor with graphite on bristol board
unsigned
bristol board stamp, lower left corner
14 x 17 1/2 inches.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Provenance:
Frank H. Boos Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, The Walter E. Simmons, II Collection of Fine Americana, February 1994, Lot 517 (illus. p. 110).

Please see Lots 59 and 60 for two additional works by the same artist. Aside from the three offered here, there are five other known works by this as-of-yet unidentified painter, all of which are classified as "memorial pictures" and could be related fragments of a larger composition: the New Bedford Memorial, in the permanent collection of the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, ex-collection, Jean Lipman; an untitled memorial held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, ex-collection Maxim Karolik (56.438); Woman and Children under a Canopy with Flags, given by Mrs. Frederick Thurston Mason in memory of her sister, Anna Phillips Stevenson to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania in 1914 (1914-365); the New Hampshire Memorial, purportedly discovered in Chocorua, New Hampshire and now owned privately in Boston; and the Boston Memorial, the whereabouts of which are currently unknown, likely housed in a private collection.

For illustrations of two of the works mentioned above, please see M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800-1875, Volume II (Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1962), p. 199, cat. no., 1200, fig. 296, and Jean Lipman, Primitive American Painting (New York City, New York: Oxford University Press, 1942), plate 31.
Condition Report
Framed: 16 x 20 inches.

In overall good and stable condition. Acid burn to sheet verso, with pinholes to lower corners. Areas of paint loss along left edge of sheet, with craquelure visible to blue flowers. Few light spots present to upper left quadrant and to sky between figures. Horizontal abrasion across shoulders of lady in blue.  Many fingerprints to grass at left and brown ground along lower edge, seemingly as intentional applications of paint. 

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