A Selection of Folk Art in Booth 508 in the Red Room at Whitney Hill at the Gables located at 250 Greenfield Rd., S. Deerfield, MA. 01373. Open Daily, 10am to 5:30pm. Tel. show contact info
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Selection includes:
AMERICAN SCHOOL, “STILL LIFE OF GLASS BOWL WITH FRUIT,” watercolor, 12 in. x 14 in. PROVENANCE: private Massachusetts collection. LIST PRICE: $125.00
19TH CENTURY AMERICAN SCHOOL, “NEWSBOY,” Collage (watercolored paper and graphite) mounted to wove paper, 8 1/2 in. x 6 in., Dated lower left “1897”. LIST PRICE: $50
“BIRD IN A BOWER,” watercolor theorem on velvet, 10 in. x 8 in., retains original Victorian walnut crossbar frame with applied carved leaf corners. LIST PRICE: $60.00
19TH/20TH CENTURY AMERICAN SCHOOL, “PORTRAIT OF A DOG,” watercolor, 10 in. x 8 in., displayed in a two part 19th Century walnut frame with incised carving and gilding. PROVENANCE: Massachusetts collection. LIST PRICE: $135
19TH/20TH CENTURY AMERICAN SCHOOL, “EAGLE,” Watercolor, 11 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. PROVENANCE: private collection, Down East Maine. LIST PRICE: $110
"THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME,” A Victorian Paper Punch Needlework Motto, 8 in. x 20 in., Late 19th Century American, Presented in Original Walnut Frame. LIST PRICE: $75
JOHN S. BOWER, Active, Massachusetts, 1870-1900, Specialty still life paintings with fruit executed in pastel. “STILL LIFE WITH PEACH, STRAWBERRY AND PLUM,” pastel on paper board, 9 inches x 12 inches, signed lower right, displayed in its original 19th Century walnut and gilt wood frame. LIST PRICE: $175
A PENNSYLVANIA CARVED COAL RELIEF SCULPTURE (LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY), “ANTHRACITE COAL BREAKER,” carved coal, 5 inches x 5 1/2 inches, mounted on a walnut plaque. NOTE: Carved coal sculpture was a form of Pennsylvania folk art popular at the end of the 19th Century. LIST PRICE: $45
"COMPORT WITH FRUIT," hand painted theorem on velvet, 12 in. x 10 in., signed and dated lower right "Marcell 1974," displayed in an antique gilt frame with applied brass corners. LIST PRICE: $55
19TH/20TH CENTURY AMERICAN SCHOOL “THE GULF STREAM,” after Winslow Homer, oil on canvas, 16 in. x 20 in. NOTE: Homer completed “The Gulf Stream” in 1899. This is a naive or folk art copy of Homer’s work and probably was completed in the early part of the 20th Century. PROVENANCE: Discovered around 1980 during the cleanup of a New York City building scheduled for demolition. Subsequently a private New York collection. LIST PRICE: $350