$42,000
American School, Early 20th Century Vermont Farm Landscape, c. 1915. Unsigned. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 22 x 27 1/4 in., in a faux bois painted wood frame. Condition: Minor craquelure on topmost building. Provenance: Walters-Benisek, purchased in 1996. Note: This painting is one of a few folk art landscapes executed by an unidentified artist who worked in the Lake Champlain areas of Vermont, New York State, and Quebec. One work is illustrated on the dust jacket of Folk Painters of America , by Robert Bishop (E.P. Dutton, New York). Another work is held in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum collection.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27