$15,000
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: December 6, 2020 2:00:00 PM EDT
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6cm)
Executed in 1913.
Provenance
The Artist.
The Estate of the Artist.
Acquired directly from the above circa 1970.
Private Collection, New Jersey.
Exhibited
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1914.
"Winter Exhibition," National Academy of Design, New York, New York, December 19, 1914 - January 17, 1915, no. 346.
"Panama Pacific International Exposition," San Francisco, California, February 20-December 4, 1915, no. 4169.
Literature
The International Studio, Vol. LII, no. 207, May 1914 (mentioned).
The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, May 1914 (illustrated and discussed).
Note
The present painting depicts the restaurant Child's in New York, located at 197 Broadway. As described during its exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York: "a hungry-looking outcast is gazing into a restaurant window, where wheat cakes [buckwheat pancakes] are being manufactured coram populo. There is no sentimental appeal and the canvas is big in color and concept."