$47,500
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 6, 2015 2:00:00 PM EDT
Oil on canvas
22 1/4 x 28 in. (56.5 x 71.1cm)
Provenance: Tilden and Thurber, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the above.
Private Collection, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the above.
The Collection of Albert Bloom, Seattle, Washington, 1964.
By descent in the family to his wife, Mrs. Bloom, 1990.
Godel & Co., Fine Art, New York, New York.
Private Collection, New York, New York.
NOTE:
The present painting does not appear in Lance Humphries' Catalogue Raisonné as it could not be located at the time of publication. However, Mr. Humphries later confirmed its authenticity, and notes in a letter to the current owner: "The work appears to be consistent with Garber's work from the 1930s and '40s. In this period Garber seems to have employed more horizontal canvases. Several other works from the period exhibit an interest in a tree in the middle ground reaching over the top of the canvases, such as "October Note" (cat. no. P561), and "Sycamore and Elm" (cat. no. P610). Although the background of "Delaware Islands" (cat. no. P699) is one depicting a deep recession into space, the placement of their overall feeling is very similar to "A Wooded Landscape". Garber utilized this sketchy means of creating background trees in many phases of his career, but in this period the general looseness of the background could possibly be favorably compared to "Late Autumn" (cat. no. P743)."