$90,000
Estimate: $70,000 - $100,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 14, 2020 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'Daniel Garber' bottom center right; also titled and signed verso, oil on board
18 x 22 (45.7 x 55.9cm)
Executed circa 1938.
Provenance
The Artist.
The Estate of the Artist.
Acquired directly from the above in 1968.
Collection of J. Marshall Cole, New Hope, Pennsylvania.
By descent in the family.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
Collection of Heidi Bingham Stott, Florida.
Literature
Artist's Record Book I, line 21, p. 79 (entry added posthumously by John Franklin Garber).
Lance Humphries, Daniel Garber: Catalogue Raisonné, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, 2006. vol. II, cat. P 659, p. 237.
Note
September Morning uses the typical pastel-like and more colorful tones of Garber's compositions from the late 1930s. As usual, the work features isolated houses and farm buildings in the distance, all slightly off-center. The scene takes place amidst overlapping hills, with not much space for the sky to peer through. Instead, Garber focuses his attention on the foreground, a stage-like arena populated by peaceful cows that act as the main characters of an idyllic play, which the viewer can embrace in one eye glance. The work is devoid of any human presence; automobiles, telephone and electric poles have been removed so that the viewer is confronted solely with the solitary buildings and grazing animals. In this respect, the cows and the barns appear to dot the landscape in an organic way, as if their presence in the scene is both logical and irreplaceable. By doing so, September Morning speaks to Garber's ongoing fascination for a simple, secluded way of life that does not involve too many human souls, and by the same token to his conscious rejection of big city life, especially Philadelphia - which he left in the early years of the century and visited only when necessary.