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Property from a Collection of American Illustration
STANLEY MASSEY ARTHURS | THE REFUGEES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER (THE WAR OF 1812)
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September 17, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Property from a Collection of American Illustration
STANLEY MASSEY ARTHURS
1877 - 1950
THE REFUGEES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER (THE WAR OF 1812)
signed SM Arthurs (lower left)
oil on canvasboard
29 ¼ by 19 ½ inches
74.3 by 49.5 cm)
Painted circa 1904.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York
S. Hallock du Pont, Jr., Florida, 1992 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner
Scribner's Magazine, September 1904, illustrated as frontispiece
Stanley Arthurs, The American Historical Scene, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1935, illustrated
Jon Latimer, 1812 War with America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007, illustrated fig. 10.1, p. 228
Jeff A. Menges, 101 Great Illustrators from the Golden Age 1890-1925, Mineola, New York, 2016, illustrated p. 6