Two (2) American oil paintings by Sydney Dale Shaw and Albert Scott Cox. 1st Item: Albert Scott Cox (Maine/Massachusetts/New York, 1863-1920) impressionistic oil on board painting titled "The Blue Door" depicting a white stucco wall with a blue door and terracotta roof, covered in overgrown greenery, rendered in an impasto technique. Signed "Albert Scott Cox" lower left. Title, artist's name, and dated, en verso of board. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with applied craquelure varnish, blue wooden fillet, and off white linen liner. Sight: 5 1/4" H x 9" W. Framed: 11 5/8" H x 15 1/2" W. 2nd Item: Sydney Dale Shaw (New York/California, 1879-1946) impressionistic oil on canvasboard maritime painting titled "Boats & Shacks" depicting a group of shacks before a boat with additional buildings visible on the opposite shore before a low mountain range with trees beneath a cloudy blue sky. Unsigned. "Estate of Sydney Dale Shaw" stamp with title, erroneously spelled artist's name, and additional inscriptions en verso. Gilt placard with misspelled spelled artist's name "Sidney Dale Shaw" and "American Impressionist" affixed lower center of frame. Housed in a giltwood frame with egg and dart running pattern and off white linen liner. Sight: 7 3/8" H x 9 3/8" W. Framed: 11 3/4" H x 13 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of J. Fred Pilkerton, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with two pinprick holes, lower center. Board is loose in frame. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. Minute area of debris, top right of sky.