On the heels of its back-to-back auctions American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists: Featuring the Collection of Charles and Virginia Bowden and A Beautiful Reality: The Fine Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rifkin, Freeman’s presents Collect: American Art on December 6. The sale offers fine opportunities for buyers at all stages to expand their collections, with a particular focus on 19th-and 20th-century painting by artists including Samuel S. Carr, William Sargeant Kendall, George Cope, Joseph Barrett, and Arthur Meltzer, among many others. Collect: American Art features several prints by the eminent Pennsylvania Impressionist Daniel Garber, drawings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt, and five paintings and drawings by Bo Bartlett, offering distinguished collecting opportunities across a range of important American artists.
Lot 1
George Herbert McCord (American, 1848-1909) Landscape with Cows and Crescent Moon
Sold for $2,268
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 2
Edmund Darch Lewis (American, 1835-1910) House by the Waterfall
Sold for $2,772
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 3
Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (American, 1840-1896) Horse Cart
Sold for $2,772
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 4
Susan Catherine Waters (American, 1823-1900) Two Chicks and Berries
Sold for $1,575
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 5
Mary Russell Smith (American, 1842-1878) Two Chicks
Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000
Lot 6
Mary Russell Smith (American, 1842-1878) Two Chicks and a Flower
Sold for $3,528
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000
Lot 7
Homer Dodge Martin (American, 1836-1897) Sand Dunes - Lake Ontario
Sold for $8,190
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 8
Régis François Gignoux (French, 1816-1882) The Farm in Winter
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 10
Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822-1902) Young Girl Behind Doorway
Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 11
James Wells Champney (American, 1843-1903) At the Well
Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 12
Frederick Stuart Church (American, 1842-1924) The Water Lily
Sold for $10,710
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 13
William Sergeant Kendall (American, 1869-1938) Portrait of Mr. Thomas McKean
Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000
Lot 14
Adolphe Borie (American, 1877-1934) Portrait of Thomas McKean
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 16
Aaron Shikler (American, 1922-2015) Portrait of a Young Girl
Sold for $252
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 19
Louis Aston Knight (American, 1873-1948) Canal View Through Gate
Sold for $20,160
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 22
William Pierce Stubbs (American, 1842-1909) The Schooner William E. Downes
Sold for $4,725
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 24
Raymond Dabb Yelland (American, 1848-1900) Moonlit Sea
Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 25
Augustus Rockwell (American, 1822-1882) Hudson River Landscape
Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 26
Fred Grayson Sayre (American, 1879-1939) Desert Cottonwoods
Sold for $2,016
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 28
Henry Pember Smith (American, 1854-1907) House with Pond
Sold for $3,276
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 29
Frank Henry Shapleigh (American, 1842-1906) Mount Washington and Ellis River, Jackson, N.H.
Sold for $3,024
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 31
George Cope (American, 1855-1929) Fork of the Brandywine
Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 33
Gifford Beal (American, 1879-1956) Fishermen on the Dock
Sold for $1,071
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 35
Gifford Beal (American, 1879-1956) Main Street, Gloucester
Sold for $1,512
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 36
Gifford Beal (American, 1879–1956) Elephant Ring at the Circus
Sold for $1,260
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 38
Gifford Beal (American, 1879-1956) By the Lake, Central Park
Sold for $945
Estimated at $600 - $1,000
Lot 40
John French Sloan (American, 1871-1951) A Collection of Etchings
Sold for $945
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 41
John French Sloan (American, 1871-1951) Hanging Clothes
Sold for $504
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 47
Attributed to William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916) Woman in a Red Cap
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 48
George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867-1933) Bearded Man in Cap
Sold for $1,008
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000
Lot 51
Julee Hutchinson (American) Collection of Three Works
Sold for $2,268
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 54
Wuanita Smith (American, 1866-1959) Kingfisher’s Breakfast
Sold for $756
Estimated at $300 - $500
Lot 55
Lilliad R. Smith (American, 20th Century) Purple Gallinule Among Lotuses
Sold for $3,024
Estimated at $500 - $800
Lot 56
Blanche Dillaye (American, 1851-1931) Moonlight Scene
Sold for $693
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 58
Constance Cochrane (American, 1888-1962) Jagged Coast
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000
Lot 61
Antonio Pietro Martino (American, 1902-1989) Summer Regatta
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 64
Antonio Pietro Martino (American, 1902-1989) Winter Hillside
Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 65
Antonio Pietro Martino (American, 1902-1989) Winter
Sold for $882
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 66
Peter Helck (American, 1893-1988) Polperro-Cornwall Coast
Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 67
Maurice Freedman (American, 1904-1984) Monhegan Traps
Sold for $4,410
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 69
John Fulton Folinsbee (American, 1892-1972) Wiscasset, Maine
Sold for $1,638
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000
Lot 70
John Fulton Folinsbee (American, 1892-1972) Rolling Landscape
Sold for $5,040
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 71
Charles Morris Young (American, 1869-1964) The Fox Hunt
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 72
Stanley L. Reckless (American, 1892-1955) Women in a Country Landscape
Sold for $2,772
Estimated at $2,500 - $4,000
Lot 74
Mary S. Townsend Mason (American, 1886-1964) The Orchard
Sold for $4,095
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 75
Maude Drein Bryant (American, 1880-1946) Blossoming Trees
Sold for $2,772
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 76
Walter Emerson Baum (American, 1884-1956) Landscape (Brook)
Sold for $5,040
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 77
William Langson Lathrop (American, 1859-1938) Autumn Landscape
Sold for $5,355
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 78
George J. Stengel (American, 1872-1937) A May Day
Sold for $5,670
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 79
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Spring in the Meadow
Sold for $5,040
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 80
Arthur Meltzer (American, 1893-1989) Green Pastures
Sold for $3,528
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 81
Leonard Ochtman (American, 1854-1935) The Upland Trail
Sold for $3,276
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 83
Gilbert Gaul (American, 1855-1919) Industrial Winter Landscape
Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 84
Franz de Merlier (American, 1878-1974) Tanguy's Farm
Sold for $2,016
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 85
Albert Van Nesse Greene (American, 1887-1971) Snow Scene with Creek
Sold for $1,890
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 87
Albert Van Nesse Greene (American, 1887-1971) Snow Scene with Two Figures
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 88
Albert Van Nesse Greene (American, 1887-1971) In the Morning Light
Sold for $2,016
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 91
Bo Bartlett (American, b. 1955) Study for 'Sins of Our Fathers'
Sold for $10,710
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 93
Bo Bartlett (American, b.1955) Salt Shaker Sketch together with Salt Shakers
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Lot 94
Marguerite Thompson Zorach (American, 1887-1968) Nudes and Still Life
Sold for $6,930
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 95
William Glackens (American, 1870-1938) Sketch Page
Sold for $4,725
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 97
Boris Lovet-Lorski (American, 1894-1973) Head of a Bearded Man
Sold for $1,386
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 98
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) Mother Holding her Nude Baby
Sold for $3,780
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 99
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903) Little Evelyn
Sold for $630
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500