$5,985
Estimate: $6,000 - $10,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 6, 2021 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed, inscribed and dated 'Wm-St-J-HARPER-1891./COPYRIGHT.1892' bottom left, oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 44 1/2 in. (76.8 x 113cm)
Provenance
Private Collection, Princeton, New Jersey.
Exhibited
"Sixty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, "National Academy of Design, New York, New York, April 4-May 14, 1892 (won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize).
Note
The present painting won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize in 1892, no doubt prompting the artist's election as an Associate at the National Academy of Design. Following his win, St. John Harper seldom exhibited again. Today, he is mostly known for the portraits of women and children he would capture often in a state of bliss harmony.