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Lot 465: Hanson Puthuff O/B Western Landscape Painting, Desert Gold

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Hanson Duvall Puthuff (Missouri/California, 1875-1972) oil on board American Impressionist landscape painting, “Desert Gold.” Small plants grow before an expansive desert vista, with purple mountains that rise in the distance beneath a blue-green sky. Signed lower left. Additionally signed and titled to verso. With additional inscriptions to verso and old inventory label to back of […]

Lot 462: Bob Ross Wet-on-Wet Technique Mountain Landscape Painting, Authenticated

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Robert “Bob” Norman Ross (American, 1942-1995) oil on canvas Wet-on-Wet Technique oval landscape painting that depicts a body of water lined with tall evergreen trees and a distant, misty mountain range all beneath a yellow-and-blue sky. Impasto details describe shrubs and other plants that grow in the foreground. Signed lower left. Canvas: 18 in. H x 24 […]

Lot 463: Bob Ross Original Oil Painting, Northern Lights, Authenticated

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Robert “Bob” Norman Ross (American, 1942-1995) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting the Northern Lights illuminating the night sky over an Alaskan mountain, with snow-covered trees and lake in the foreground. Signed lower left “Ross” and dated 1979 (last digit partially concealed by frame). Stamps en verso for “Bob Ross Alaskan Oil Paintings,” Eielson Air Force Base, […]

Lot 461: Margaret Keane Big Eyes O/C Painting, 1961, “Sound of Fragrance”

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Margaret D. (Hawkins) Keane (American/Tennessee, 1927-2022) oil on canvas painting titled “Sound of Fragrance,” depicting a young woman with Keane’s trademark “big eyes,” holding a flower near her ear. The woman is depicted waist length, in a sleeveless yellow dress, with partially upswept auburn hair, against a blue and white shaded background. Signed “MDH Keane” […]

Lot 460: Charles Smith Block Painting Plus Virginia Map & Signed 32 Woodcuts Book

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Group of three (3) Charles Smith (Virginia/American, 1893-1987) artworks and publications. Item 1: Cubist mixed media painting on heavy wove paper that depicts a stylized bird, with additional abstract composition en verso. Signed to recto, lower right. Unframed. Sheet: 9 in. H x 12 in. W. Item 2: Charles Smith’s “A Historical Map of Virginia” […]

Lot 458: Meyer Wolfe Exhibited Pastel, Conversation (The Socialists)

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Meyer R. Wolfe (Tennessee/New York, 1897-1995), pastel drawing depicting five men seated at a cafe table. Four of the men respond strongly as the man in the center gestures with his hands to make a point. Signed and dated 1951 lower right. Matted and framed under glass in a molded giltwood frame. Sight: 17 1/2 in. W x […]

Lot 457: Joanna Higgs Ross Modernist Portrait Painting, Kitty, Exhibited

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Joanna Higgs Ross (Tennessee, 1934-2025) acrylic on canvas portrait entitled “Kitty.” A young African American woman shown in bust-length wears a white headwrap and brown overalls as she sits before a geometric black-and-green background. Signed, titled, and dated to back of stretcher. Housed in a simple wooden frame. Sight/Canvas: 25 1/8 in. H x 30 1/8 […]

Lot 456: Joanna Higgs Ross Painting, Landscape w/ Clouds

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Joanna Higgs Ross (Tennessee, 1934-2025) acrylic on canvas modernist  landscape painting, “Landscape with Clouds.” Sunlight partially breaks through clouds that fill the sky above a suburban area which includes a group of houses and a parking lot. The top of a pine tree extends upward from the lower center edge of the composition. All rendered with loose, gestural […]

Lot 455: 2 Carl Sublett Expressionist Coastal Watercolor Paintings

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Two (2) Carl Sublett (Tennessee, 1919-2008) watercolor on paper seascape paintings depicting a blue ocean and brown landforms. Signed and dated “65 Sublett.” Housed under glass in matching gilt painted wood frames and white mats. Sight: 17 in. H x 23 in. W. Framed: 25 in. H x 29 3/4 in. W. Artist Notes: In 1982, […]