The newest edition of Freeman’s American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists sale will take place in late spring, invigorating collectors with a remarkable lineup of historic American art at the auction house’s Philadelphia location.
“The spring installment of American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists offers a cross-section of American art history, bridging the gap between 19th-century landscape painting and the crisp narratives of mid-century modernism,” says Adam Veil, Freeman’s vice president and head of American art. “The sale is anchored by an appealing selection of canvases by New Hope Impressionists Rae Sloan Bredin, Mary Elizabeth Price and Kenneth Nunamaker, and also by Walter Emerson Baum’s Late Afternoon, arguably his most compelling interpretation of the region. A strong selection of Golden Age illustration—by the likes of Howard Pyle, Ethel Franklin Betts and Sarah Stilwell Weber—highlights Freeman’s historical strengths in the Brandywine School while standout examples by Everett Shinn, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Henry Potthast and Martha Walter offer a counterpoint to offerings by Milton Avery, Wolf Kahn and Jamie Wyeth.”
Everett Shinn (1876-1953), Bonnie Glass, 1915. Pastel on paper, 33½ x 16 in. Estimate: $40/60,000
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927), ca. 1910. Picnic on the Beach, watercolor and gouache on paper, 29¼ x 39½ in. Estimate: $20/30,000
Among the standout works to keep an eye on for the upcoming sale, Veil cites Shinn’s 1915 pastel Bonnie Glass, “an effortlessly slapdash, yet sensitive portrait of acclaimed Vaudeville performer, Bonnie Glass.” The piece is expected to fetch between $40,000 and $60,000.
Picnic on the Beach, a watercolor and gouache by Potthast, is “a beautiful and typical scene of seaside leisure, and the largest watercolor by Potthast to ever come to market,” Veil says. The piece was painted around 1910 and has a presale estimate of $20,000 to $30,000.
Hubert Vos (1855-1935), Still Life, 1933. Oil on canvas, 27½ x 21¼ in. Estimate: $10/15,000
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), Woman by a Stream, 1913. Gouache and watercolor on board, 287/8 x 207/8 in. Estimate: $10/15,000
Weber rounds things out with Roller Skating (est. $15/25,000) and Children’s May Day Parade (est. $25/40,000), which Veil cites as a rare pair of Saturday Evening Post covers by the beloved Philadelphia illustrator.
In addition, look for works like Hubert Vos’ early 1930s still life, a beautiful painting that clearly shows the texture of the canvas on which he worked, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000; as well as Pyle’s early 20th-century oil Villon–The Singer Fate Fashioned to Her Liking, and Louis Comfort Tiffany’s 1913 Woman by a Stream, both also estimated at $10,000 to $15,000.
The American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists sale takes place Sunday, June 7. —
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