Helen La France (American/Kentucky, b. 1919) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a woman doing laundry in tubs on the porch of a rural house while chickens and chicks peck the ground below, and another figure works in a fenced side yard. Brightly patterned quilts hang on clothes lines in the foreground, and clouds dot […]
Lot 121: Clementine Hunter O/B, Picking Flowers or Uncle Tom's Cabin
Clementine Reuben Hunter (Louisiana, 1886-1988) early oil on canvasboard folk art farm scene titled "Picking Flowers", variant of her common theme, Uncle Tom's Cabin, circa 1960s. Painting depicts a man with white beard, "Uncle Tom," and young "Eliza" in a bright yellow dress with red hair ribbons, tending to and picking flowers around the base […]
Lot 119: Lida Elston, O/C Portrait of an African American
Ann Eliza "Lida" Elstun (Ohio, 1852-1940) oil on canvas portrait of an African American youth, with short dark hair and black shirt, set against a gold background. Wide cove molded gilt wood frame. Unsigned. 19" H x 16" W sight, 24 3/4" H x 21 3/4" W framed. Note: Lyde Elstun was a graduate of […]
Lot 117: Daniel MacMorris O/B Mural Study, History of the Printed Word
Daniel Leroy MacMorris (New York/Missouri, 1893-1981) oil on board study for a mural at the Law Library Reading Room at the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, Supreme Court of Ohio, circa 1933. The panel depicts a seated woman in classical dress, representing science, holding a globe in one hand and open book in the […]
Lot 116: 2 Daniel MacMorris O/B Paintings, Old and New America
Daniel Leroy MacMorris (New York/Missouri, 1893-1981) oil on board diptych paintings, studies for an unidentified mural, one representing Pre-Columbian America with three Native American figures and animals in a forest setting, presided over by a defied chieftain illuminated by rays of sunlight; the other representing modern America with a group of Classical figures in a […]
Lot 115: Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt Woodcut, The Quarry
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (New Mexico/New Jersey/Kansas/Sweden, 1878-1955) colored woodcut on cream Japan paper titled "The Quarry", depicting three working men hauling stones against a mountainous landscape. Pencil signed and dated "Nordfelt, No. 45, 1906" lower right. Hinge mounted and double matted. Sight – 8" H x 11" W. Sheet – 8 1/2" H x […]
Lot 114: Thomas Hart Benton Signed Lithograph, In The Ozarks
Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri/Massachusetts/Kansas, 1889-1975) signed limited edition lithograph on paper titled "In The Ozarks", published by Associated American Artists, New York. Depression-era Dust Bowl scene depicting a farmer in a cowboy hat seated on a barrel and gazing at three pigs, foreground, a farmhouse encircled by a dirt road below a cloudy sky in […]
Lot 113: Grant Wood Signed Lithograph, "January"
Grant Wood (Iowa, 1891-1942), "January," signed limited edition lithograph on paper, from the edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists, New York. Winter landscape scene depicting several rows of haystacks covered with snow, lines of animal footprints leading away from a haystack in the right foreground. Signed "Grant Wood" in pencil, lower right under […]
Lot 112: Roger Tory Peterson Bird Painting & Book
Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) original ornithology book illustration painting and a signed copy of his book, A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS. 1st item: ink and gouache on cardstock of two small birds on a limb, likely wrens, one with worm in beak, the other with open beak. Signed in pencil lower right "R.T. Peterson […]
Lot 111: Audubon Bien Edition, Falcon
Audubon, John James: Iceland or Jer Falcon / Falco Islandicus (Female Birds). No. 13-2, Plate 19. Chromolithograph by J. Bien, New York, 1860. Sight – 37 1/2" H x 25" W. Sheet – 39 1/3" H x 26 1/2" W. Matted and framed under glass in a silver-gilt molded frame, 35 1/2" H x 48 […]