ALBERT FRANCIS KING | Still Life with Watermelon, Jug and Knife

Corporate collection, Michigan (sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 30, 2009, lot 65)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Roanoke, Virginia, The Art Museum of Western Virginia, The American Spirit, 19th Century Masterpieces from the Masco Collection, July-October 1994
Greenburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Nature's Bounty: Still Life Painting in Southwestern Pennsylvania at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, August-September 2001

The canvas is wax lined and the edges are covered with tape. Under UV: there are scattered dots of inpainting, a few dots and lines along left edge and inpainting to frame abrasion at edges.
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