Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) pencil on paper figural studies on a single sheet titled “Pals” depicting two women standing and embracing named “Luella” and “Rhoda”; the artist as a young boy holding a puppy and “Mama” in the center; and solitary male sitting in a rope swing. Titled lower left and signed “Carroll Cloar” lower […]
Lot 115: John Chumley Watercolor "Blizzard"
John Wesley Chumley (Virginia/Tennessee 1928-1984) watercolor snow scene painting titled "Blizzard" depicting two houses in the background (presumably the artist's homes) and a fence line in the foreground, both covered in deep drifts of winter snow. Signed "Chumley" lower right. Titled "Blizzard/ Chumley's House" en verso. Housed in a silvered gilt wood frame. Sight – […]
Lot 116: George Cress O/B, Cubist Beach Scene
George Ayers Cress (Alabama/Tennessee, 1921-2008) oil on board cubist style painting titled "Sand Dunes" rendered in shades of blue and green. Signed and dated "George Cress 1954" lower right. Titled en verso. Housed in a rustic weathered wood frame. Sight – 15 1/2" H x 29" W. Framed – 21 1/2" H x 35 1/2" […]
Lot 114: Thomas Campbell, TN Landscape
Thomas Campbell (Tennessee, 1834-1914) oil on board landscape, probably Tennessee, depicting a meadow with several cows and a grove of trees in the foreground, and more cattle and trees in the background. Signed lower right T. Campbell. Partial label en verso for a painters supply business on Williams Street in New York. Housed in a […]
Lot 112: Folk Art Portrait of a Child, TN History
Folk art painting on canvas, depicting a little girl with brown eyes and ringlets, wearing a triple strand coral necklace and lace dress with red sash, seated in a red painted chair with yellow trim, and holding fruit. 28″ x 19 1/2″ unframed. Provenance: Painting has descended in the Moran family of Woodland Farm in […]
Lot 111: Thomas Scott, Portrait of Springfield
Thomas James Scott (Kentucky, 1824-1888) oil on canvas painting of the horse Springfield of Belle Meade Plantation. The horse is depicted standing in a stall in front of his feed box, on which the artist has painted his name. Artist signature T. J. Scott in lower right margin, dated 1885. 18" H x 24" W. […]
Lot 110: Print of Bonnie Scotland and Bob Green, 20th c.
1933 Hand colored gravure print of the famous Belle Meade Stallion, Bonnie Scotland, with groom Robert (Bob) Green, based on the 1878 painting by H.S. Kittredge (ref. the original Kittredge painting, also being sold in this auction), "from the original in the collection of William Harding Jackson Esq., Published and Copyrighted at the Sign of […]
Lot 107: Helen LaFrance, O/C, "Laundry Day," exhibited
Helen LaFrance (Kentucky, born 1919) oil on canvas painting titled “Laundry Day,” landscape depicting two quilts hanging on a clothes line and a woman stiring the contents of a large kettle. Signed and dated “78” lower right. Exhibition label with title and medium and label with alternate title “On the Farm”, en verso (exhibited, Tennessee […]
Lot 108: William Frye Portrait of an African American Man
George Wilhelm Frye, (Germany/Alabama, 1822-1872) oval oil on canvas painting of Southern historical interest, depicting a bearded African American man standing beside a posted newspaper, attired in a white shirt, red pants and suspenders, a straw hat and black boots. The subject holds a brush tinged with whitewash or white glue and a paint pail, […]
Lot 109: H. Kittredge, Portrait of Bonnie Scotland & Robert Green, Belle Meade
The only known lifetime oil portrait of Bonnie Scotland, premier stallion of Belle Meade Plantation, with chief groom Robert “Uncle Bob” Green, painted and dated 1879 by Herbert S. Kittredge (American, 1853- 1881). The iconic painting depicts Bonnie Scotland standing in a field under a partly cloudy blue sky, beside Green, who is attired in […]