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William Aiken Walker 1828 - 1921
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description
- William Aiken Walker
- The Cotton Wagon
- signed with the artist's monogrammed signature WAWalker, l.l.
- oil on canvas
- 18 by 30 in.
- (45.7 by 76.2 cm)
Provenance
Chapellier Galleries, New York
Mrs. George Arden, New York (sold: Christie's, New York, May 22, 1991, lot 78, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Mrs. George Arden, New York (sold: Christie's, New York, May 22, 1991, lot 78, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Exhibited
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts; Orlando, Florida, Loch Haven Art Center, The Good Life, An Exhibition of American Genre Painting by Artists Born during the First Four Decades of the 19th Century, September-October 1971, no 33, illustrated
New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana State Museum, The World of William Aiken Walker, December 1972-January 1973
New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana State Museum, The World of William Aiken Walker, December 1972-January 1973
Literature
August P. Trovaioli and Roulhac B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Baton Rouge, Louisana, 1972, pl. 15, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
This scene has been identified by former U.S. Senator James F. Byrnes as the James Allen Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina.