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Lot Description

American School, Mid-19th Century

Civil War Memorial Picture
oil and watercolor with graphite on bristol board
unsigned
mounted soldier bearing floral wreath inscribed Union Peace
partial bristol board stamp, upper right corner
13 1/2 x 15 5/8 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 516 (illus. p. 109).

Please see Lots 58 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": 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 3/8 x 19 3/8 inches.

Acid burn and foxing to ground verso, with pencil inscription (23320-S-15) to lower left quadrant. Flaking to paper edges, with additional area to background at center, with tear along top edge. Paint loss and raised wrinkle over skirt of woman at extreme left. Superficial loss to paper near nose of kneeling woman. Abrasion across hindquarters of dog.

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