Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) signed lithograph, “The Ingredients,” also known as “Making of a Drawing,” depicting ghostly black and white figures holding books about art and drawing, surrounding a young artist at work (presumably Cloar). A rural farm scene is visible in the background. Pencil signed in lower right corner, titled in lower left corner. […]
Lot 121: Werner Wildner Framed Drawing
Werner Wildner (Nashville, Tennessee, 1925-2004) framed graphite and wash drawing on illustration board depicting a hunchback or troll figure perched atop a sphere and fishing a rat. Monogram 'W" signature in the drum. Exhibited, LIGHT AND DARK: THE FANTASTIC WORLD OF WERNER WILDNER, Oct 28-Dec. 17, 1999, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (exhibition label en […]
Lot 117: George Cress, O/B, Abstract Cityscape
George Ayers Cress (Alabama/Tennessee, 1921-2008) oil on board abstract painting titled "City Shadows" depicting a cityscape with church and steeple at left. Signed and dated "George Cress 1955" lower right. Titled with exhibition label en verso. Housed in a rustic painted wood frame. Sight – 22" H x 11 1/4" W. Framed – 29" H […]
Lot 119: Caroll Cloar Drawing, "Pals"
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 […]