Red Grooms (Tennessee/New York, b. 1937) watercolor on paper painting titled, Carousel Study of "Andrew Jackson". Signed and dated '95, lower right. Label with artist's name, title, and medium, en verso. Float mounted in plexiglass case. Sheet – 12" H x 10" W. Case – 19 1/2" H x 16 1/2" W x 2 1/2" […]
Lot 129: 2 Carroll Cloar Drawings "Uncle John" and "Aunt Fanny"
Two (2) Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) pencil on paper drawings. 1st item: Pencil on paper portrait titled, Uncle John, depicting a standing male holding a fan. Titled lower left, signed and dated Carroll Cloar, ’56, lower right. 23″ H x 16″ W. 2nd item: Pencil on paper portrait titled, Aunt Fanny and Uncle John, depicting […]
Lot 126: Avery Handly, Self Portrait
Avery Handly Jr. (Tennessee, 1913-1958) oil on canvas waist length self portrait of the artist as a young man. Note: Portrait documented by the Tennessee Portrait Project in 2003. His right hand is on a post of a stair or bridge with his body slightly turned; in the left background the back of a person […]
Lot 127: Carroll Cloar painting, The Waiting, with sketch and poster
(3 items) – Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) acrylic on board painting titled, The Waiting, depicting figures standing in an open field, a brick building in the background covered with FS Chapell The Rabbit’s Foot Minstrel show advertising posters and a solitary seated figure in the foreground, wearing a bee keeper’s head gear/suit and eating an […]
Lot 128: 2 Carroll Cloar Drawings, Waiting Up for Lettie
Two (2) Carroll Cloar (Tennessee, 1913-1993) pencil studies, both titled, Waiting Up for Lettie. 1st item: Pencil on paper drawing depicting three young girls in the foreground with another young girl approaching in the distance. Titled lower left and signed, Carroll Cloar, at right. Landscape drawing en verso. 19 1/2″ H x 16″ W. 2nd […]
Lot 123: Charles Krutch Watercolor Landscape
Charles Krutch (Tennessee, 1849-1934) East Tennessee river watercolor and gouache landscape painting, depicting a tree lined river bank with meadow or blue skyline in the background. Signed KRUTCH in red, lower left corner. Housed in a molded gilt frame. Retains old partially legible Knoxville framing label. Sight – 4 3/4″ H x 8 3/4″ W. […]
Lot 124: Carl Sublett Watercolor, "Van Deventer Home"
Carl Sublett (TN, 1919-2008) watercolor painting of the Colonel James Van Deventer home which later became the University of Tennessee Faculty Club, and most recently Hodges Library. Signed and dated, '64 Sublett, lower left. Framed in stained wooden and goldtone frame. Sight – 17" W x 13 1/2" D. Framed – 24 1/2" W x […]
Lot 125: Pair of Ralph Earl Tennessee Portraits
Pair of Tennessee portraits by Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (1788-1838), unsigned, oil on canvas, depicting Thomas Claiborne Jr. (b. Petersburg, Virginia, 1780- d. Nashville, Tennessee ,1856) in white linen shirt with tie, waistcoat and brass buttoned coat and a woman, likely his wife Sarah Lewis King Claiborne (1786-1867); in lace bonnet with yellow and purple […]
Lot 122: Lloyd Branson Panoramic East TN Farm Scene, Watercolor
Lloyd Branson (Tennessee, 1861-1925) panoramic watercolor on paper of a pastoral farmscape. Sheep in foreground with a path leading to fenced farmstead in the distance with more sheep and chickens outside of house and barn to right. Sunlight is coming through clouds. Signed lower right “L. Branson”. Three-inch wide period flame mahogany veneer wood frame […]
Lot 119: East Tennessee Corner Cupboard, 1820
East Tennessee walnut corner cupboard, poplar secondary wood. Top with deep cove cornice, straight-back side returns, mortise and tenon construction, glazed doors with eight panes each, stained interior with three shelves with plate moldings, medial ogee molding; Lower section with paneled doors, one interior shelf, base molding with shaped bracket feet. 90" H x 47" […]