Lot 262
  • 262

Joseph H. Davis (1811 - 1865)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Joseph H. Davis
  • Page Batchelder and Betsy Batchelder
  • Watercolor, pen and ink on paper
  • 10 3/4 by 15 1/4 in.
  • Maine or New Hampshire
inscribed along the bottom Page Batchelder. aged 48. July 8th 1836. Betsy Batchelder. aged 50. June 18th 1836.

Provenance

James Abbe, Jr.;
Good & Hutchinson, Glenbrook, Connecticut.

Exhibited

Traveling Exhibition, The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876, New York, The Whitney Museum of Art; Richmond, Virginia, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, February 1974-September 1974;
Three New England Watercolor Painters, Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis Museum of Art; Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abbey Aldridge Rockefeller Folk Art Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery, November 1974-Septemer 1975;
Traveling Exhibition,  American Master Drawings and Watercolors: Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, California, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor, September 1976-April 1977.

Literature

Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester, The Flowering of American Folk Art (1776-1876), (Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1974, 1987), pp. 42-43, no. 46;
Gail and Norbert H. Savage and Esther Sparks, Three New England Watercolor Painters, (Chicago, Illinois: Art Institute of Chicago, 1974), no. 3.

Condition

Overall fine condition with some discoloration of the paper.
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