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Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey

Jane Anthony Davis (1821 - 1855)

A Mother and Daughter

No reserve

Lot Closed

January 25, 08:27 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

watercolor and graphite on paper

circa 1825

7 in. by 7 ½ in.


with American Folk Art Gallery label on verso.


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Found in Burlington, Vermont, January 1941;

Edith Gregor Halpert, New York;

Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Pokety Farms, Cambridge, Maryland;

Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, Important Frakturs, Embroidered Pictures, Theorem Paintings and Cutwork Pictures and Other American Folk Art from the Collection of William Edgar and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Part III, November 12, 1974, sale 3692, lot 40;

Judy Lennett, Ridgefield, Connecticut;

Barbara Pollack, Chicago, Illinois.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1974.

Barbara Pollack advertisement, Magazine Antiques (November 1978);

Gail Savage, Norbert Savage and Esther Sparks, Three New England Watercolor Painters, (Chicago, IL: The Art Institute, 1974), listed in the Errata and Addenda as #53;

Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 227, fig. 396.