Sold for:
$20,000
$20,000
Albert Ernest (Beanie) Backus (American, 1906-1991), "View of Florida Coastline"-circa 1960s, oil on canvas, signed lower right "A. E. Backus". Florida Highwaymen landscape painting depicting a view of the Florida coast line, possibly of St. Lucie (Northern Coast) with green palm trees, sandy beach, and ocean under large clouds in blue sky. Framed approximately 34.5" x 39.75". Unframed approximately 25.25" x 30.25".Provenance: Gift from artist to consignor's mother in the 1950s. Thence by decent to the present owner, historian Arthur E. Chapman of Woodstock, Georgia.
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2015-03-21
