Lot 121
  • 121

Edmund W. Greacen 1877-1949

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edmund William Greacen
  • Winter Woods
  • signed Edmund Greacen, l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 40 in.
  • 76.2 by 101.6 cm.
  • Painted circa 1911

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
H.V. Allison Galleries, Inc., New York
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1997

Exhibited

New York, The Folsom Galleries, Paintings by Edmund Greacen, 1911, no. 15
New York, National Academy of Design, Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1912, no. 26
Cleveland, The Gage Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Edmund Greacen, 1914, no. 1
The Toledo Museum of Art, Transient Exhibition:  Paintings by Edmund Greacen, 1914, cat. no. 215, p. 13
Houston, Meredith Long and Company, Edmund Greacen, American Impressionist, 1981

Literature

Elisabeth Jane Merrill, "Artist Sees Tints Many Never Know", Toledo Blade, December 11-14, n.d.

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in good condition, generally; craquelure throughout (work is painted with thick impasto)--stable and flat from relining UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: a few scattered spots of inpaint throughout work
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