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Lot 1242: Carl Gutherz O/C Portrait of a New England Senator c. 1900

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Carl Gutherz or Guthers (Tennessee/Missouri, 1844-1907), oil on canvas bust-length portrait of a gentleman depicted wearing a black suit against a dark ground. Signed lower right “Carl Gutherz W. D. C” and dated 1900. A label en verso reads “A New England Senator” but the sitter is unknown. Unframed and unstretched. Image: 30 in. H x 25 […]

Lot 1241: Hugh Poe & Mary E. Grainger Pastel Portraits, Tennessee/Indiana Interest

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1st item: Hugh M. Poe (Tennessee/Indiana, 1902-1972) oval pastel portrait drawing that depicts a young man shown in bust-length. He wears a white shirt with a black cravat and smiles slightly. Signed and dated 1933 in pencil, lower left. Housed under glass in a giltwood frame. Sight: 11 in. H x 9 in. W. Framed: […]

Lot 1239: 4 British Sporting/Equestrian Horse Racing Engravings & Book

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Grouping of 4 British sporting or equestrian horse racing engravings in matching frames, depicting various scenes from 19th-century Doncaster races.  Includes book with 8 tissue-protected color plates, “The Story of British Sporting Prints” by Captain Frank Siltzer, Second Edition, 1929. Item 1: Doncaster Race aquatint, after James Pollard (English, 1792-1867) by C. Hunt and R. […]

Lot 1238: 2 O/C Seascape Paintings after William Trost Richards

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Two (2) unsigned oil on canvas atmospheric seascape paintings, after William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905). 1st item: oil on canvas painting depicting a lighthouse in a turbulent sea, with crashing waves in the foreground and a distressed ship in the distance. After a known work by Richards, “Untitled, Rough Sea.” Sight: 9 1/2 in. H […]

Lot 1237: Sheldon Tapley Pastel Still Life w/ Fruit

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1st item: Sheldon Tapley (Kentucky, b. 1959) pastel on paper still life painting depicting a rustic interior scene featuring watermelons and pears together with a sponge-painted pitcher on a country table with other household items beside and below. Signed lower right. Linda Schwartz, Lexington, Kentucky, gallery label en verso that contains the artist’s information and […]

Lot 1236: Kinley Shogren, Two Watercolor Industrial Paintings

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Kinley Shogren (American, 1924-1991), two realist watercolor on board paintings of mid 20th century industrial scenes, both matted and framed under glass in narrow molded gilt frames. The first painting depicts the US Merchant Ship Samuel Mather docked, likely in Lorain, Ohio, as shipping freight is unloaded. Signed lower right. Sight: 14 in. H. 21 […]

Lot 1235: Lawrence Beall Smith Medical Illustration Art, Abbott Laboratories, 1948

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Lawrence Beall Smith (American, 1909-1995) gouache on artists board advertisement illustration for Abbott Laboratories. Depicts two boys playing around chartreuse wooden crates, one standing below with a Navy hat, striped shirt, blue jeans, and rifle, and one crouching above with red round glasses and black barrister gown, likely representing a Reverend Spooner-type character. Standing boy is handing […]

Lot 1234: Two O/C Paintings by Janine Wesselmann, Interiors and Gossip

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Two (2) oil on canvas paintings by Janine Wesselmann (New York/American – b. 1947), titled “Gossip” and “Interiors,” each depicting a European-style social scene in Wesselmann’s impressionistic style. “Gossip” details a standing woman in a blue dress sharing apparently surprising news, as other guests react. Sight: 13 1/4 in. W x 10 1/4 in. H. […]

Lot 1233: Impressionist O/C Painting of a Nude Woman

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Impressionist oil on canvas laid to board painting of a nude woman, seated with her back to the viewer in an indistinct room, as she gazes at an open door leading to a room beyond. Unsigned. Stained, distressed wood frame with beaded sight edge. Sight: 17 1/2 in. h x 12 in. W. Frame: 21 in. H […]