PHILADELPHIA — Earning $352,800 and a new auction record for artist Bo Bartlett (American, b 1955) was “The Promised Land,” a monumental landscape oil on linen work that measured 88-1/8 by 120 inches. It was the top lot in Freeman’s December 4 American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists sale, which also featured works from the collection of Charles and Virginia Bowden. According to Freeman’s specialist and head of sale, Raphaël Chatroux, it attracted so much interest that there were eight phone lines in competition for it, with bidders from Georgia to Maine. A more extensive recap of the sale, including Freeman’s single-owner sale of American art from the collection of Mr and Mrs Arnold Rifkin on December 5 and a large various owners American art sale on December 6, all of which combined to bring $3.9 million, will be featured in an upcoming issue.