By Greg Smith

With the spring sales getting underway, we are looking forward to see how our hometown boys and girls fare against worries of a slowing art market. Our picks bring together some of the most admired American artists of all time offered for sale at auction and through our marketplace, including the venerable mainstays like Bierstadt and Jacobsen to the new age Rockwell, O’Keeffe and Wyeth.

SOTHEBY’S

Sale Date: May 18, 2016
Lot 24
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
“Road Block (Bulldog Blocking Truck; Traffic Conditions)“, oil on board, painted in 1949.
Estimate: $4/6,000,000

HYLAND GRANBY ANTIQUES

Antonio Jacobsen (1850 – 1921)
Depicting the steamship Servia, oil on canvas, dated 1882
Price Upon Request

CHRISTIE’S

Sale Date: May 19, 2016
Lot 14
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
“Lake George Reflection”, oil on canvas, painted circa 1921-22.
Estimate: $8/12,000,000

QUESTROYAL FINE ART

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902)
“A Trail through the Trees”, oil on board, signed lower left
Price Upon Request

BONHAMS

Sale Date: May 18, 2016
Lot 21
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
“Breakup”, tempera on panel, painted in 1994.
Estimate: $1,5/2,500,000

JONATHAN BOOS

Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000)
“Harlem Street Scene”, gouache on paper, circa 1942
Price Upon Request

DUMOUCHELLES

Sale Date: May 22, 2016
Lot 2006
Thomas Doughty (1793-1856)
“Glimpse of the Sea”, oil on canvas, circa 1831
Estimate: $10/15,000

DAVID A. SCHORSCH – EILEEN M. SMILES AMERICAN ANTIQUES

“Portrait of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932)”
Oil on canvas, Philadelphia, Penn., circa 1854. The sitter became a famous orator, author, and lecturer as an advocate for the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage.
Price Upon Request

BRUNK AUCTION

Sale Date: May 13, 2016
Lot 305
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
“White Horse”, watercolor over charcoal on paper, circa 1938
Estimate: $30/45,000

THOMAS COLVILLE FINE ART, LLC

Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948)
“At the Clothesline”, oil on canvas, circa 1893
Price Upon Request

SKINNER

Sale Date: May 13, 2016
Lot 385
Alfred Maurer (American, 1868-1932)
“Plums and Pears”, oil on panel, gallery and museum labels
Estimate: $40/60,000