American Renaissance: Including An Important Private Collection of Greene & Greene

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Lot 303
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Charles Sumner Greene

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Description

  • Charles Sumner Greene
  • ''The Flying Dutchman''
  • oil on panel
    together with the original oak frame executed by Charles Sumner Greene

Provenance

Descended in the family of Charles Sumner Greene

Exhibited

Greene & Greene and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, permanent exhibition, The Virginia Steele Scott Gallery of American Art, The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, 1990-1998

Catalogue Note

Correspondence between Charles and a lady friend in the 1890s records the fact that ''The Flying Dutchman'' was a project sadly left unfinished due to the demands of Charles and Henry’s growing architectural practice.  In time it was completed and Charles made the oak frame himself.  The painting was displayed in his homes in Pasadena and Carmel throughout his lifetime.