Omer Thomas Lassonde (American, 1903-1980) impressionist oil on board landscape painting depicting a seaside village, rendered in a heavy impastotechnique. Signed "Lassonde" lower right. Artist's name, en verso of board. Housed in a contemporary giltwood frame with bead course running pattern and an off white linen liner. Sight – 19 1/2" H x 15 3/8" […]
Lot 140: Angel Botello Barros Oil Landscape
Angel Botello (Barros) (Puerto Rico/Haiti/Spain, 1913-1986) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a road winding through a hilly landscape dotted with colorful trees. Shadows fill the valley below, while a distant mountain range is illuminated by the overcast sky above. Signed "A Botello Barros" lower left. Conservation label en verso. The hand carved whitewashed frame, […]
Lot 137: J. Vance Miller O/C Painting, Swimming Pool
James Vance Miller (West Virginia/Virginia, 1912-2002) oil on board impressionist landscape painting titled "Swimming Pool" depicting several people swimming and jumping into a river surrounded by large trees, rendered in a heavy impasto technique.Inscribed signature "J. Vance Miller"lower right. Handwritten label with title, en verso. Housed in a molded gilt wood frame. Sight – 21 […]
Lot 138: Eliot Clark O/C Painting, Virginia Barn
Eliot Candee Clark (New York/Virginia/Europe,1883-1980) oil on canvas paintingtitled "Virginia Barn" depicting a barn and a silo with a human figure and sheep in a late autumn landscape, fore and middle ground, with a low mountain rangebeneath cloudyblue sky, background. Signed "Eliot Clark" lower right. Typed label with title and artist'sname, en verso. Housed in […]
Lot 136: Carl Christian Brenner O/C, Sunset Landscape Painting
Carl Christian (Charles) Brenner (Kentucky/Switzerland/Germany, 1838-1888) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a grove of trees at the edge of a body of water, with luminous pink sunset in the background. Signed "Carl C. Brenner" lower right. Canvas is backed with (but not adhered to) a board bearing a partial late 19th century catalog listing. […]
Lot 134: Exhibited Nell Choate Jones O/C Painting, Purple Twilight
Nell Choate Jones (Georgia/New York, 1879-1981) oil on canvas landscape painting, possibly a Georgia scene, titled "Purple Twilight" depicting a dirt road situated in a field with flowers, with blue and purple mountains below a cloudy blue sky tinged with pink. Unsigned. Exhibition label en verso for the Southern States Art League, Hotel Biltmore, Atlanta, […]
Lot 135: Lamar Dodd O/C, Alabama Valley Landscape
Lamar William Dodd (Georgia/New York, 1909-1996), "Alabama Valley" or "The Peaceful Valley," large oil on canvas impressionist Southern landscape painting, depicting a valley with animals grazing at center under a line of trees, a body of water to the left, bordered to the right with a split rail fence, and rolling blue hills in the […]
Lot 132: Henry K. Brown Bronze Bust of Henry Clay, 1852
Important Henry Kirke Brown (American, 1814-1886) bronze cabinet-size bust depicting the American attorney and statesman, Henry Clay Sr. of Kentucky (b.1777-d. 1852). Signed on the left back shoulder "H. K. Brown Sculptor Sept. 1852." 16 1/4" H x 9 1/2" W x 6" D. Note: This bronze bust, which descended to the present consignor from […]
Lot 133: Baltimore Framed Plaque or Trade Sign for Stonecutter
Carved oval black marble plaque, housed in a frame labeled for M. Barrett and Brother (Baltimore, Maryland, working ca. 1853 – ca. 1860) with carved decoration depicting a man wearing an apron and top hat, seated and sawing through a slab of stone. Partially legible presentation inscription en verso. Housed in a gilt wood frame […]
Lot 130: Audubon Havell Ed. Nashville and TN Warblers, Exhibited
Two (2) John James Audubon (1785-1851) hand-colored aquatint engravings, NASHVILLE WARBLER and TENNESSEE WARBLER, printed and published by R. Havell, first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Both etchings exhibited, The Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2006. 1st item: Nashville Warbler, Plate #89, No. 18, depicting a male and […]