Lot 158
  • 158

Frank Tenney Johnson

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Frank Tenney Johnson
  • Pursuit of a Cattle Thief
  • signed F. Tenney Johnson, A.N.A. and dated 1934, l.l.
  • oil on canvas
  • 20 by 24 1/2 in.
  • 50.8 by 62.2 cm.

Provenance

Private Collection, Indiana, circa 1940
By descent in the family to the present owner

Condition

Canvas is lined. SURFACE: in good condition, overall; scattered craquelure (work is painted with thick impasto); a few tiny losses UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: scattered craquelure fill-in in sky (most of it in center and at upper left) and in the white area under the middle horse's hooves; other than this, a few scattered dots of inpaint--on horses and in foreground at lower left
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