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ELSIE DRIGGS | LILACS

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September 30, 07:58 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

ELSIE DRIGGS

1898 - 1992

LILACS


signed Elsie Driggs (lower right)

oil on canvas

25 ½ by 22 inches

(64.8 by 55.9 cm)

Painted in 1918.

The artist

Elizabeth Driggs, Connecticut (by descent)

Dr. Tom Folk, Far Hills, New Jersey

Private collection, Bernardsville, New Jersey

Dr. Tom Folk, Far Hills, New Jersey

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Elsie Driggs: A Woman Genius, January-March 1991, p. 11, no. 1

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Michener Art Museum, Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical, January - April 2008, p. 63, no. 3, illustrated