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Lot Description

Antoinette "Nettie" Cortrite (Active 1887, Michigan)

Fanning Mill Factory
1887
oil on board
18 x 24 inches.

Provenance:
Mrs. Craig, Grand Blanc, Michigan;
Henry and Evelyn Raskin, Holly, Michigan, 1974;
Balcony Row Antiques, Holly, Michigan;
Dr. and Mrs. Fouad A. Rabiah, Flint, Michigan, 1985;
Estate of Margaret E. Rabiah, Flint, Michigan, 2021.

Exhibition:
Kresge Art Gallery at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Folk Art: Its beginnings to 1941, August 29 - October 10, 1976;
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, on extended loan 1990s-2021.

Literature:
Michigan Folk Art: Its beginnings to 1941, (1976: Michigan State University Board of Trustees, East Lansing, Michigan), p. 41, cat. no. 64 (illustrated);
C. Kurt Dewhurst, Betty and Marsha MacDowell, Artists in Aprons: Folk Art by American Woman, (1979: E.P. Dutton, New York), fig. 90 (illustrated);
Robert Bishop, Folk Painters of America (1979: E.P. Dutton, New York), p. 215, fig. 329 (illustrated).

Condition Report

In overall fine and stable condition. Loss of opacity to paint of horse. Arched stress cracks to upper corners, with additional vertical cracking to sky at center. Grass in foreground fluoresces under UV light examination.

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