Shannon’s Fine Art Auction
October 27 at 6 pm
49 Research Drive Milford, Connecticut 06460
www.shannons.com
info@shannons.com
203-877-1711

MILFORD, CONN. — Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers will host its next fine art auction on Thursday, October 27, at 6 pm Eastern time. The sale features numerous examples of American art, primarily from private collections and institutions. Bidding will be available live on Shannon’s website, by telephone or by absentee. The catalog is available online and a full-color printed auction catalog is available by contacting the gallery.

American Impressionist paintings by New Hope artists Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber and John F. Folinsbee will be offered for the first time in more than a decade from an important private collection. The Redfield, titled “Drifted Road,” 1917, measures 38 by 50 inches and depicts an early winter landscape with dappled sunlight ($200/300,000). The Garber, titled “Elm Bough,” is included in the artist’s catalogue raisonné, where the provenance traces it all the way back to the original sale ($200/300,000).

Folinsbee’s, “Goat Hill,” from 1923, traveled to the 1924 Texas State Fair as part of a loan exhibition of American paintings ($40/60,000). From another collection, a rare, large New Hope school painting by New England artist William Lester Stevens of Point Pleasant on the Delaware River, circa 1927-29, measures 42 by 48 inches ($20/30,000).

There are three works by members of the important American Ashcan group known as “The Eight.” The leading lot is a Maurice Prendergast oil on panel depicting a “Beach Scene in Boston” ($175/275,000). From the same collection are a Robert Henri of “Faith,” an oil portrait of an Irish child ($100/150,000), and a rare John Sloan oil, titled “Croquet” from circa 1908 ($25/35,000). By Walt Kuhn, an American Modernist who painted with Sloan and Henri, “Girl in Green,” a portrait of a circus performer, is fresh-to-the-market, measures 30 by 25 inches and is from a private Midwestern collection ($80/120,000).

A rare, monumental sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, titled “Life and Love Springs from the Sea,” will be offered at $180/220,000. Measuring more than 9 feet tall, the bronze fountain was cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York as part of a private commission from the artist for an indoor pool house in Port Chester, N.Y.

Historical American paintings are led by a view of Venice by Thomas Moran from an important private collection. Venice became a favored subject for the artist after his first visit in 1886. Of the city, Moran said, “Venice is an inexhaustible mine of pictorial treasures for the artist and of dreamy remembrance to those who have been fortunate enough to visit it.” These sentiments still ring true for many American visitors. The 20-by-30-inch painting is estimated to bring $150/250,000.

The modern and contemporary category will be led by Modernist Lynne Mapp Drexler’s untitled oil on canvas, from 1963 ($50/75,000). Shannon’s will offer Scott Kahn’s “The Woods” (2017) at an estimate of $80/120,000. A whimsical “Alice” drawing by John Wesley will be offered ($10/15,000), and colorful gouache by Bob Thompson is estimated at $30/50,000. All the aforementioned works are coming to auction for the first time.

A recently rediscovered masterpiece by Alice Mattern will be featured in the sale. “Abandon” measures 40 by 40 inches and was included in the 1945 “Alice Mattern Memorial” at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in New York City ($25/35,000).

Another find is a Thomas Hart Benton “Study for Over the Mountains.” The boldly colored, oil study closely resembles the composition of the finished mural panel at the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City ($40/60,000).

In-person previews will be conducted by appointment October 17-26 (weekdays from 11 am to 6 pm Eastern time) and Saturday, October 22, from 10 am to 3 pm, in Shannon’s gallery at 49 Research Drive. For additional information, www.shannons.com or 203-877-1711.

ADDITIONAL WORKS BY:
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Scott Kahn, Walt Kuhn, Lynne Mapp Drexler, Walter Launt Palmer, Bob Thompson, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Osthaus, Wolf Kahn, Edward Willis Redfield, Thomas Moran, John Folinsbee, Wiliam Trost Richards, Alice Mattern and more!
Catalog available on shannons.com October 3, 2022
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MAURICE PRENDERGAST
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