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PAINTINGS

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$895 net
Charles Gordon Harris  (1891 - 1963)
oil on artist canvas board.
Actve in Rhode Island & Bermuda
He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design; his teachers were Cyrus Farnum, Stacy Tolman, and George A. Hays.
12 X 14” sight
Excellent condition, just cleaned! Hays.  

#6-9147-1750

A lovely Luigi Lucioni watercolor  14" X 20" sight

$2500
A 19th C. Hudson River school
landscape with water lilies
oil on canvas
20 X 30 in original 27 X 37 frame
#6-9037- 2550

$2500
Hans Gyde Petersen, 1863-1943, Denmark
Oil on canvas landscape of a gnarly tree with grazing deer in the distance,
Ca 1930’s in a great frame.
20 X 29 sight 25.5 X 34 overall
#6-9037- 1550

$1200 - A Horace Brown oil on panel of Vermont birch trees in fall foliage with the Green Mountains in the background. In it's original Silver leaf frame. Just cleaned. #3-7147-1350

$6500- A William C. Ehrig oil on canvas, in fabulous original hand carved gilt frame. 27.5 X 37.5 sight, 33.5 X 43.5 overall. #0-5157-5050

$1200
John Gunther
oil on panel of Manchester Vermont's Equinox Mountain,
obviously a student of Luigi Lucioni
10” X 18”
#8-7087-1055

$695 - An I. M. Sanger oil on panel of flowers. Ca 1930, 26.5" X 20.5" in a nice gilt frame# 6-4098-1725

$350 - An Arthur Douglas oil on panel landscape, on back "July 27 1923" 15 x 18.5" overall - # 6-4098- 525

$695 - An Arthur Douglas oil on panel landscape, in big ole gold frame, 25 x 30" overall - # 6-4098-1525

$20,000 - A large and important early Patsy Santo painting from 1931. 29 X 45 overall 23.5" X 40"sight. -#

$3500
Alice R. Comins California and Maine (1861 1943)
An atmospheric landscape by California and New England artist Alice R. Comins oil on canvas, signed LR, on verso "The Valley by Alice R. Comins, York, August 1913" Excellent Condition 20" X 26"

#6-7187-2050


Born in Gloucester, MA on Jan. 1, 1861, Alice moved full time to Carmel, CA in 1918 where she continued her active art career.  She divided her time between New England, with Boston as her staging ground and the Monterrey Peninsula until her death on Dec. 28, 1943. She was a member of the Carmel Art Association and the National Association of Women Painters & Sculptors. She had Exhibitions with the San Francisco Art Association, 1918; Oakland Art Gallery, 1932, 1934; and the Santa Cruz Art League, 1934

$1800 - An 1891 Maud Humphrey watercolor, mother of Humphrey Bogart-This Maud Humphrey water color signed and dated 1891 is 16"X 14" She was one of the most popular illustrators in America at the turn of the century. Unfortunately, through the years, Maud's impact on American illustration was lost, until it seemed her only claim to fame was as the mother of Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart. However, Maud's role on the American art scene was as remarkable as any role her son ever played on stage or screen. Today, there is a resurgence of interest in Maud Humphrey's work. Try to imagine what it was like to be a young woman growing up in Victorian times and the limitations those times set before her. Maud went beyond the limitations to become an early suffragette; she maintained her art career even after marriage and a family. Many of her images grace the advertising designs promoting Prudential Insurance and Ivory Soap, and her artwork graced the covers of Harper's and Century magazines. Several series of her illustrations of children were published as postcards, beginning around 1908. Her portrait of her son Humphrey was used for Mellins Baby Food ad. This piece was glued to the back of a matt and has some toning, it also has some surface dirt that looks appropriate for it's age, it will look excellent with a new matt though. This is the largest example of this type of her work that i could find. #64-1048- 1450

$4500
19th C. Oil on canvas of Barnyard scene with chickens, chicks and Rooster
12 X 15 sight 16 X 19 overall.
American 1880’s unsigned
#6-8157-5850

$1800 - Elwyn George Gowen, (1895-1954)     

"The Little Red House" West Pawlet Vermont   -  oil on canvas, 20 x 26 inches, signed, titled, and dated  in the artist's hand on the stretcher. Unframed.  Verdant fields rendered in Gowen's unequaled style. Painted on location on July 19th and 20th, 1939.  This oil has been in the family attic since the artist's death in 1954.  In mint condition. #6-11147-2050

$1500 - An 1879 oil on canvas from Bristol Rhode Island signed #6-11147-1850

$4500 - A fine Hudson River school autumn oil on canvas. Signed " J. C. Durand Artist" in original period frame. 22 X 36 sight . On the back is an old note that says "Durand painting once owned by Gen. Roswell Farnham, Civil War Governor of Vermont from Bradford VT." which according to my research is almost accurate. Farnham was elected Vermont's Governor in 1880, obviously after the war.- #6-9037-5750

A 19th c. oval ivory portrait miniature of gentleman in high collar, set in gilt metal. No visible signature.

$6500- A large signed oil on canvas of a western scene, labeled on back " Colorado Foothills" signed "M.J. Noheimer 54" - #10-8237-450

$395 - A gouache and watercolor on paper by illustrator Frances Brundage -#64-1048- 275

$1200 - William Dean Fausett (1913-1998) Vermont/New York. Watercolor on paper Ca. 1946 . Fausett was known for his portraits, murals and landscapes. He painted portraits of Ronald Regan, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Hoagy Carmichael among others. Dwight Eisenhower hung one of his landscapes in the White House during his presidency. Dean also painted the landscape background murals for the Mammal Exhibit at the New York Museum of Natural History. As a young man I worked for Mr. Fausett and we became good friends, he was a lovely man and I always get excited when I find his work. 18" x 24" sight, with original frame 22" x 28". label on back reads, "Lake by Fausett". 8-8017-750

SOLD - 4 Neapolitan School Italian Grand Tour Gouaches, Nice matched set of Four in fabulous birds eye maple frames. The 4 of Vesuvius, The Blue Grotto in Capri, The Archeological Ruins of Pompeii and the Naples Waterfront. Ca. 1830's In original birds-eye Maple frames. Please excuse my reflections, tough to photo.

Charles Curtis Allen  (1886 - 1950) "Early Spring, Dorset, VT". 12" x 16" Oil/Canvasboard - #6-9037-1950

$4500 - A Disney cell of "Happy"

SOLD - $1800 - 1929 Oil on Canvas of a Market scene

 A Jay Connaway oil on artists board

  SOLD - - 19th C. Primitive oil on boad still life of strawberries

David Morrison Reid-Henry (British, 1919-1977)
“ ” (c. 1960). Opaque watercolor and gouache on board. Image size: 10 X 15.5". Frame size: 18 x 23". Signed by artist in l. l.: D M Henry. Beautiful! #6-6306-3650

An oil on canvas floral painting signed "J. Sehemi" in a great frame ca. 1940's -#6-1317-525

American, 19th Century oil on canvas. The panoramic scene shows Mt Monadnock in New Hampshire and a series of low rolling hills dotted with fields and lined with stone walls. Farms are seen nestled amongst trees and farmers are seen with wagon and carts, cattle and horse drawn hay wagon. All under a blue and white cloud sky. Foreground has a corn field. Artist signed bottom center with monogram "TSW" . Housed in original wonderful period lemon gold deep molded period frame. SIZE: sight 16" x 34". CONDITION: Relined with some inpainting
#6-8236-9050

  SOLD - Ashley Havinden - 24 X 36 Oil on canvas stretched over panel. In clean and untouched condition. Signed "Ashley 55" comes with book of Havindens work- #6-11155-1040

  Miniature portrait of a man on ivory.. In gold frame with opening in back for a hair cutting. Unsigned. #6-8175-1250

19th Century miniature painting on Ivory. Provenance written on back. Signed. Framed size 4.5" X 4". #31-25/1205

Pair of oval Italian "Grand Tour" gouache landscapes of a building lined and boat filled Naples Harbor with Mount Vesuvious spewing smoke in the distance. Housed in a fine matched pair of deep carved walnut frames with gold liners. Aas typical this pair is unsigned. Sight 7.25" X 10" #6-8226-4050 

Pair of oval Italian "Grand Tour" gouache landscapes of a building lined and boat filled Naples Harbor with Mount Vesuvious spewing smoke in the distance. Housed in a fine matched pair of deep carved walnut frames with gold liners. Aas typical this pair is unsigned. Sight 7.25" X 10" #6-8226-4050 

Charles E. Buckler (American, 1869 to 1953),

"Snowy Brook"

Wintertime scene shows a small winding brook through snowy banks with trees in the background. Cascading light shines off the snowy banks. Signed lower left "C E Buckler". Excellent original condition. Housed in a fine gold gesso decorated frame. Oil on canvas painting, 24" X 36" sight, 33.25" X 45.25" overall. #6-8236-106.50

Oil on academy board of a Florida scene with Palm trees and Egrets. Hard to decipher writing and signature on back.

$9500 - 19th Century French Impressionist Paris Scene Oil on Canvas painting, 26" X 21.5" - Signed Bernard

SOLD - F.H. de Bellefroid "Forsythias" 24" X 36" Oil on Canvas
SOLD - $8200 A French oil on canvas, Louis-Aime Japy, Landscape with Cows 20.5" X 29" sight, signed and dated "Japy 73" relined, w/ some very very small spots of touch up. 6-1317-8050
SOLD - $6250 - An oil on canvas painting by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (American, 1868 to 1924); the scene shows a three-mast tall sailing ship in full sail coming towards viewer in rough seas. Blue and cloud sky. Signed lower right "TVC Valenkamph" In what looks to be the magnificent original frame. #6-11147-9050
SOLD - An English Horse Equestrian driving & Polo painting 1898 by Henry William Standing, watercolor and gouache on artists paper board in a fabulous burl frame. Labeled on back “Four in Hand, driven by Lord Roundway, near Roundway Park, Devizes, Wiltshire Downs, England.” from a Newport Rhode Island Gallery. Signed H.W. Standing 1898. In a lovely 2.25” burl walnut frame 25” X 40.75” overall, 15” X 29” sight. In excellent condition, a couple of barely noticeable to be expected age spots, appropriate for a painting of this age and that certainly don’t detract.
SOLD - A Fabulous Ca. 1810 portrait of Thomas Little with dog. Little was an important lumber and leather entrepreneur in New Jersey and who's son went on to become the 20th President of Harvard. Original and untouched
SOLD - $4500 - A lovely Cleade Enders oil on panel of the Hollyhocks outside the "Cephas Kent Tavern" at the base of Nichols Hill in Dorset, Vt. where the first general convention of delegates from Vermont was held on the 25th of September, 1776 and later the home of Lincoln Isham and then Helen and Roland Beers #6-8237-2250`

SOLD - $8500 - An Edwin Childs oil on canvas dated 1933, 16 X 20 sight, 21.6 X 25.6" overall. of what looks to be Prentice Pond in Dorset Vermont, in it's original Stanford White designed Newcomb-Macklin gilt frame, all in immaculate condition. #6-6257-9250
SOLD - A 19th century full length oval miniature portrait of a man in full military dress with drawn sword, in gilt bronze frame.
SOLD - $2500 - A lovely 19th C. Hudson River school landscape, oil on canvas in original Lemon Gold frame 22.25 X 28" overall. - #6-9037- 2125

SOLD - Conrad Meili (1895-1970) Pastel, signed LL"Meili 1929" 9" X 14" sight, 15.75" X 20.5" overall - #31-26

   
SOLD - Artist -LUIGI LUCIONI, N.A. (1900-1988)
Title -"Intermezzo in Mauve" 
Medium - 15' X 18" - Oil painting on Canvas
Date -1974
Condition- Absolutely Mint w Great Original Frame 
signed and dated W/ "Southern Vermont Artists Inc." 
(todays Southern Vermont Art Center) "Annual Members Exhibition" label on verso
 
SOLD - $1200 19th C. Hudson River School oil on artist board

SOLD - An Edward Landon oil on board

SOLD - $175 - Clifton Hackler oil on panel of sailboats dated 1929 14.5 X 16.5" - # 6-4098- 525
  SOLD - 19th C. Oil on canvas - Portrait of young boy, in great lemon gold frame. Signed “A, Durkee 1879” 38" X 27" #6-5305-950

SOLD - Continental portrait 

SOLD- Alfred Edward Borthwick (1871-1955), "SUMMER LANDSCAPE"

A very appealing Oil on canvas, painting 25 x 30 in., signed & dated lower right, A.E. Borthwick.

6-12133-36506

SOLD - Robert A Carter. Oil on Canvas. A lovely nude study. Titled "Repose" and signed "Carter 1938" with a "Studio Guild Gallery, 730 5th Ave. NYC" label on back

SOLD - Signed Victorian box w/ miniature enamel of woman and signed by artist. 19th Century nice patina - #6-9293-575

SOLD - Robert Shaw Wesson (1902 - 1967)- Oil on canvas. An impressionist landscape painter, Wesson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and lived and worked in Vermont. He studied at Clark and Harvard and with Woodward, Connaway, etc. He is known for his snow scenes, which have established him as one of New England's finest artists of the 20th century. This is a particularly appealing and successful example of his work (Source: G. Eldridge Antiques)

SOLD -  Oil on board - Farm scene titled "Falls Splendor" signed R. McClellan- Approx. 12" X 16" #6-5305-1050

   ORIGINAL OIL BY EDWARD LANDON , The painting is 21" x 23" and is entitled "August 1934 II". The title is interesting as the artists full name is Edward August Landon. Mr. Landon's descendants were pleased to hear of this long forgotton and previously unknown piece. It is a great find and rare opportunity for the Landon collector.

SOLD -  Outsider art. Oil on canvas signed AR Gately 

  SOLD - J.C.Doemling 1892-? "California 192?" sight 11.5 x 15.5 overall 17.5 x 21.5 Oil on canvas painting. #6-12304-1050
SOLD A huge abstract painting by K. Ross. 48" X 48" - #10-8237-450
SOLD - A Sand Paper painting of a Hudson River School style scene with a Railroad bridge. Painting is in excellent shape but frame is very rough. #6-9037- 1030
SOLD - Alice Y Hirsh 1888 - 1935, NY landscape painting. Ashcan school. Oil on 12" X 16" Artists Canvas. Board Inscribed on back "Tony's " No. 35" and with a typed label with the same information. Each year Alice usually numbered her paintings, beginning with "No. 1" in Jan. In original as found condition with original 16.5" X 20.5" frame. Signed LR
SOLD - - Illinois Springfield watch advertising with Abe Lincoln #6-8157- 850
SOLD - $2300 - A Reginald Marsh, painting on masonite, tempera with ink and pencil, it is 5" X 4" sight and 7" X 6" overall. In untouched original condition, absolutely no defects but could use a little cleaning. Signed Marsh Lower left. As you probably know Marsh lived here in Vermont and died in Dorset in 1954. This painting was a gift from the artist and has never been offered for sale before. This is painted directly on the masonite, not on paper that is then glued down.. #3-10217-3650
SOLD - An oil on panel labeled on back "West family farm, on the road to Dorset" Signed Entwistle.
  SOLD - Lumen Martin Winter "The Red Mountain" 1966. Sight 7.5 x 9.5. Overall 12.5 x 14.5. Oil on canvas painting. #31-24/1205
SOLD - A nice little oil on canvas of the the "Erie Canal Days" signed and dated 1880 - #6-11171-1250
SOLD - $825
Fleurette Recio Withers
American 20th C.
"Early morning with ducks"
Impressionist oil painting on canvas
31" X 27"

#6-1238-290
SOLD - "Winter" by Pennsylvania Artist Leonid Gechtoff M.A.A.- 1883 - 1941 Impasto Oil on Artists Board, 20" X 22" Gechtoff worked mostly in Pennsylvania, but also traveled and painted in the Western states and the Middle East. Inscribed "Winter (PA)" on back . This has hung in my house for many many years. It's one of the very successful versions of this scene in his oeuvre. Recently cleaned and reframed.
SOLD -    

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